Glenn Ward
Summary
Or, Answer the following questions
This article presents the latest trend in the modern thought, which is postmodernism. This concept developed as an academic category concerning to the development in arts, society, culture, politics, and education and so on. The term ‘postmodernism’ was a thought o describe our new period of disillusionment. This concept developed in the 1980s and became a global discussion in the media, a global course in the western academic courses (a, c). In the past, technological progress was seen as belonging to the specific ‘modernist’ historical period (b).
As a flexible term, meanings of postmodernism are:
- an actual state of affairs in the society.
- the set of ideal that tries to define.
- an artistic style, approach in making things.
- acceptance various existence, meanings and opinions.
- no certainty, absolute truth, ultimate meaning, final interpretation.
- a word in different contexts to cover different aspects and areas (g).
Postmodernism is neither a school of thought, nor a unified movement having any specific objectives, nor it has any spokesman. But this idea developed in all disciplines; philosophy, cultural studies, geography to art history. Postmodernism in one discipline means it is different in another place. In this way, the idea is complex. It respects all opinions, ideas, views, thoughts, logics etc and it is flexible. There is nothing constant, stable, fixed, eternal truth, and certain. Even truth is relative, not absolute. It tries to define and explain as many different aspects and contexts of life as possible. It varies the set of concepts with full debates. It deconstructs everything what previously had been in existence. So, it is difficult for us to define ‘postmodernism’ (d, e, f, h).
Postmodernism is the multi- divertional latest literary movement or phenomena which denies absolute truth, consistency, certainty, and single-view on the existence. All interpretations are temporary, no interpretation is final but all interpretations are liable and true (i).
Postmodernism proposes that society, culture, lifestyles are today significantly different from the past. They are concerned with the concrete subjects as in media, society and technology. These developments have impacts in our understanding of more abstract matters. They claim that old styles of matter analysis in not sufficient and new approaches are necessary to know the modern world.
