As pundits and scholars come to terms with the new “post-truth” era, the fingers point to a familiar intellectual culprit: postmodernism. Columnist Paul Waldman, writing in The American Prospect, ...

Is there one philosophy we can blame for all that has gone wrong with human reasoning? Some believe so – it goes by the name of postmodernism. A method of thought that traces its roots to Europe in ...

William Lyons is director of policy partnerships for the Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tennessee. Most people don’t pay ...

Postmodernism as a broad intellectual, social and literary movement is hard to capture and define, not more so due to the deliberate wishes of the some of it protagonists for the paradigm to remain ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The wonderful thing about postmodernism is what Charles Jencks, the writer and designer who pretty much popularised ...

Postmodernism is not anti-modernism, since plurality was already propagated by modernism (cf. Max Weber: the “polytheism of values” as a characteristic of modernity), but it is concretely opposed to ...

Architecture is in a constant state of near-neurotic obsession over its past. So this month, when the American Institute of Architects decided not to name a winner for its annual Twenty-Five Year ...

There still remains much confusion over what postmodernity actually means, so take this sentence as only one attempt, courtesy of Urban Dictionary: “A term that you keep on hearing about in college ...

Because they specialized in showing us many possibilities, most postmodernists did not say, "My view is absolutely correct. Any other theory is just wrong and stupid. I am the only one who knows the ...

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