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  2. Criticism of postmodernism - Wikipedia

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    Postmodernism has received significant criticism for its lack of stable definition and meaning. The term marks a departure from modernism, and may refer to an epoch of human history (see Postmodernity), a set of movements, styles, and methods in art and architecture, or a broad range of scholarship, drawing influence from scholarly fields such as critical theory, post-structuralist philosophy ...

  3. Postmodernism - Wikipedia

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    A review of the postmodern urbanism literature, published in 2018 in the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, examined postmodernist writing in terms of style, epoch, and method, noting a general lack of cohesive definition, and the use of questionable interpretation to form conceptual statements. The review concluded that as a ...

  4. Postpositivism - Wikipedia

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    It has influenced contemporary research methodologies. Thomas Kuhn is credited with having popularized and at least in part originated the post-empiricist philosophy of science. [ 6 ] Kuhn's idea of paradigm shifts offers a broader critique of logical positivism, arguing that it is not simply individual theories but whole worldviews that must ...

  5. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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    Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is a 1991 book by Fredric Jameson, in which the author offers a critique of modernism and postmodernism from a Marxist perspective. The book began as a 1984 article in the New Left Review. [1] [2] It has been presented as his "most wide-ranging and accessible book". [3]

  6. Postmodern philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed during the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment.

  7. The Postmodern Condition - Wikipedia

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    The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (French: La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir) is a 1979 book by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, in which the author analyzes the notion of knowledge in postmodern society as the end of 'grand narratives' or metanarratives, which he considers a quintessential feature of modernity.

  8. Grievance studies affair - Wikipedia

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    Out of 20 papers submitted, 4 published, 3 accepted but not yet published, 6 rejected, 7 still under review (at the time when the hoax was revealed, and halted) The grievance studies affair was the project of a team of three authors— Peter Boghossian , James A. Lindsay , and Helen Pluckrose —to highlight what they saw as poor scholarship ...

  9. Critical theory - Wikipedia

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    Meaning itself is seen as unstable due to social structures' rapid transformation. As a result, research focuses on local manifestations rather than broad generalizations. Postmodern critical research is also characterized by the crisis of representation, which rejects the idea that a researcher's work is an "objective depiction of a stable ...