Modernism Quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks

“That is my second hypothesis: Postmodernism is a response to the crisis of faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies the leap…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“In postmodernism we find metaphysical antirealism, epistemological subjectivity, the placing of feeling at the root of all value issues, the consequent relativism of both…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Accordingly, postmodernism recasts the nature of rhetoric: Rhetoric is persuasion in the absence of cognition.”

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason, those consequences being necessary given the history of epistemology since Kant.”

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just…

— Steven Pinker

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United…

— Brad Thor

I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to…

— Paul Weyrich

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated…

— Martin Filler

Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange…

— Lyman Abbott

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

— Jonathan Lethem

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

— David Roochnik

“May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?”

— Jonathan Lethem