Postmodernisme er en filosofisk bevægelse, der opstod i det 20. århundrede og udfordrer modernismens ideer. Den afviser universelle sandheder og fremhæver relativisme, skepsis og kulturel mangfoldighed. Postmodernismen understreger, at viden og sandhed er konstruerede, påvirket af magt, sprog og historiske kontekster.
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Postmodernism
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The Britannica entry on “Postmodernism” outlines a philosophical movement emerging in the late 20th century, skeptical of grand narratives and absolute truths, with no direct Neolithic tie but a faint echo of cultural rupture. Around 10,000 BCE, the shift to agriculture in the Fertile Crescent birthed stable societies, laying groundwork for the modernist systems postmodernism later critiques. The article details how thinkers like Foucault and Derrida rejected universal reason—born from Enlightenment faith in progress—and embraced relativism, deconstructing language, power, and identity. Postmodernism questions science, history, and morality as constructs, not truths, favoring fragmentation over cohesion. Emerging post-World War II, it reflects unease with modernity’s failures, akin to how Neolithic stability upended foraging fluidity. While not agrarian in focus, its challenge to foundational stories mirrors that ancient leap’s reshaping of human order, albeit in a cerebral, skeptical vein.