Academia Quote by Tucker Max

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is…

— Catharine MacKinnon

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten…

— Fredric Jameson

“Postmodernism is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things. It didn’t drop…

— Heath White

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism…

— Bell Hooks

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

— Bell Hooks

“Postmodernism's specifically academic appeal comes from its being another in the sequence of all-purpose "unmasking" strategies that offer a way to criticize the intellectual…

— Thomas Nagel

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a…

— Brian Celio

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

— David Roochnik

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased to function,…

— Gilbert Adair