What is Postmodernism?
Sep. 27th, 2007 06:36 amWill Rogers famously said, "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
Elizabeth asked me, in Ari's journal, for my definition of postmodernism, and I've been mulling over it ever since. It's not that I think, as some do, that postmodernism is particularly resistant to defining in a way that some other intellectual movements is not. Instead, any intellectual movement is given to a number of definitions, some descriptive and some prescriptive, and with postmodernism no less than any other movement these definitions sometimes work against each other.
( Postmodernism is a movement of people in history )
( Postmodernism is an abstract mode of analysis )
( Postmodernism is a mode of expression )