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  2. Postmodernism - Wikipedia

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    Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism.They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting the world.

  3. 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.

  4. Postmodern literature - Wikipedia

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    Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, ...

  5. Post-structuralism - Wikipedia

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    Postmodernism; Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by ...

  6. Postmodern religion - Wikipedia

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    Postmodern religion acknowledges and accepts different versions of truth. For example, rituals, beliefs and practices can be invented, transformed, created and reworked based on constantly shifting and changing realities, individual preferences, myths, legends, archetypes, rituals and cultural values and beliefs.

  7. Postmodernist anthropology - Wikipedia

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    Other major tenets of postmodernist anthropology are: an emphasis on including the opinions and perspectives of the people being studied, cultural relativism as a method of inquiry [3] skepticism towards the claims of science to producing objective and universally valid knowledge [4]

  8. Postmodernity - Wikipedia

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    Postmodernity (post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. [nb 1] Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century – in the 1980s or early 1990s – and that it was replaced by postmodernity, and still others would extend modernity to cover the developments denoted by ...

  9. Postmodern art - Wikipedia

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    Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia, installation art, conceptual art and multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern.