Postmodernism: Philosophical Aspects

Paul Patton

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.63062-3

Postmodernism: Philosophical Aspects

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Abstract

Postmodernism is an unstable concept because of the complex ways in which it overlaps with other concepts such as postmodernity, poststructuralism, and pragmatism. It may be identified by reference to an open-ended list of themes, including a preference for plurality, difference, and identity over unity, universality, and identity. Postmodernism also privileges a nonreferential conception of signs and images as simulacra rather than representations, although no less real in their effects. It also seeks to account for the possibility of criticism and to maintain commitments to freedom and progress, however redefined.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioural Sciences
Editors	James D. Wright
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	684-689
Number of pages	6
Volume	18
Edition	2nd
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080970875
ISBN (Print)	9780080970868
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.63062-3
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Criticism
Difference
Differend
Différance
Grand narrative
Modernism
Modernity
Multiplicity
Postmodernity
Poststructuralism
Pragmatism
Representation
Simulacra
Truth

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