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	Postmodernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Armed with this process of questioning the social basis of assertions, postmodernist philosophers began to attack unities of modernism, and particularly unities seen as being rooted in the Enlightenment.
		Many critics characterise postmodernism as an ephemeral phenomenon that cannot be adequately defined simply because, as a philosophy at least, it represents nothing more substantial than a series of disparate conjectures allied only in their distrust of modernism.
		These critics claim that, inasmuch as many postmodernist arguments rely on charges of racism and ethnocentrism in traditional Western science, it is little more than an out.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postmodernism (5219 words)

	AT 27: Evangelical Anabaptism: One Hope for Relevant Mission in a Postmodern Context \| The Anabaptist Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Postmodernists favour a holism and pragmatism that refuses to view a person’s life as consisting of unrelated and isolated segments, and insists that the impact of one’s beliefs should be tangible and beneficial to one’s life.
		Postmodernists utterly refute the suggestion that one single philosophical or spiritual metanarrative is sufficient and suitable for all people in all situations.
		Finally, postmodernists are unwilling placidly to accept the status quo, be it philosophical or theological, and believe it incumbent upon them to challenge assumptions, in an attempt to unearth biases and flawed thinking.
	www.anabaptistnetwork.com /book/view/143 (1826 words)

	The Plague of Postmodernism
		Many of today’s leading intellectuals are postmodernists who accede to the ideas of anti-realism, skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, pragmatism, collectivism, egalitarianism, altruism, anti-individualism, the world as conflictual and contradictory, and emotions, instincts, and feelings as better and deeper guides to action than reason.
		Postmodernists exhibit disbelief in metanarratives in a myriad of areas such as literary criticism, political theory, music, architecture, etc. They display disdain for the modern ideas of rationality, linear progress, and one right way to do things.
		Postmodernists find fault with systems of thought that try to explain the world, its social and natural laws, its true morality, the path of history, and the nature of the human person, in universal terms that apply equally to all people in all times and places.
	solohq.com /Articles/Younkins/The_Plague_of_Postmodernism.shtml (1304 words)

	Redefining Reality: Epiphany as a Standard of Postmodern Truth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Postmodernists have argued that due to a variety of inherent biases in the standards by which ”valid“ (Kvale, 1995; Lather, 1993, 1995) knowledge has been evaluated, instead of achieving the Enlightenment goals of Truth, Justice, Equality, Democracy, etc., modernist science has tended to reproduce ideological justifications for the perpetuation of long-standing forms of inequality.
		Postmodernists (Clough, 1992, 1994; Denzin, 1994a, 1996a; Lather, 1993, 1995; Lemert, 1991, 1993; Richardson, 1991; Seidman, 1991; Tierney, 1997) have argued that, in the interest of developing universalizing themes, modernist scientists overlooked the degree to which such ”universal“; themes were rooted in cultural biases.
		The postmodernist contradiction is very similar to the paradox that Lukes encountered in positing the existence of the third face of power: due to the exercise of coercive power that seemed to be implied in standardizing the definition of real interests, he was unable to propose a consistent means with which to identify radical power.
	www.sociology.org /content/vol003.004/mcgettigan.html (5523 words)

	The Gospel and Postmodernism
		Postmodernists want to make a difference in the problems they see around them. They will be much more socially conscious than modern Evangelicals have tended to be. This gives them many more ministry opportunities and allows them new ways to be salt and light in their communities.
		Postmodernists will be more open to the realities of the spiritual realm. Some modernist Christians have struggled with this even though it is a clearly biblical issue because their modern mindset would not allow them to accept what they could not measure or sense with their five senses.
		Postmodernists may tend to say that Jesus told them something in prayer so it doesn't matter what the Bible says. Or they may make decisions based on their own non-biblical values without significant biblical reflection; both are dangerous.
	www.facingthechallenge.org /rohde1.htm (3306 words)

	Relativism, Modernism and Postmodernism Ideology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Those concepts and the cultural activity which use them - science, aesthetics and ethics - are condemned by postmodernists to desappear because of their ideological character.
		Relativism of postmodernists theorists is not a methodological relativism, that could be relevant, but it is an integral relativism, that strike inside the knowledges, and not only the condition of their production.
		The modern society is for the main postmodernist sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, a sort of society who built on anguish in loss of universal values - this loss being the consequence of religious and scientific revolutions.
	www.gradnet.de /papers/pomo2.archives/pomo01.paper/Faiella01.htm (334 words)

	Postmodernist/Modernist Thought
		Postmodernist: local; repressed voices; constitutive processes; metanarratives; power/knowledge; fragmented; contingent and provisional truths; Pathos; discourse of hysteric and analyst; knowledge for sale; education as ideology and functional; narrative knowledge; noise, the parasite; enthymemes; the rhizome; dilire; incompleteness; undecidability; dialogic pedagogy; abduction.
		Postmodernist: genealogy; transpraxis; standpoint epistemology(ies); Pure Play/musement; rhizome; disidentification; play of the imaginary; dialectics of struggle; affirmative action; deconstruction and reconstruction; proliferation of complexity; premises of action based on tolerability; overcoming panopticism; d_pens_, mimeses; multiplicities of resistance to power; assuming one's desire; dialogism; conscientization, language of possibility; revolutionary subject; discourse of the hysteric/analyst.
		Postmodernists are in general agreement that, in studying historical change, much room must be made for the contributions of contingency, irony, the spontaneous, and the marginal.
	sun.soci.niu.edu /~critcrim/papers/drag-pomo.html (8009 words)

	-=== -===- JSM1996 NIETZSCHE AND THE POSTMODERNISTS
		Postmodernist theory may be taken as a range of ideas that includes French poststructuralism as well as Rorty's 'liberal ironism'.
		Postmodernist views are supported by the idea that by altogether destroying the concept of truth one promotes liberation.
		Postmodernists would say that as such he is still constrained by rigid presuppositions, therefore they themselves are the freest spirits.
	www.mith.demon.co.uk /POSTMOD.html (10820 words)

	Postmodernism and Christianity - Research Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Naively, postmodernists charge, modernists assumed that the mind was a "mirror of nature," meaning that our perceptions of reality actually correspond to the way the world is. From this presumption, modernists built a culture that exalted technological achievement and mastery over the natural order.
		Postmodernists say that the idols of autonomous reason and technological proliferation have brought the modern age to the brink of disaster.
		Postmodernists hold that the pretense of objective truth always does violence by excluding other voices (regarding other world views to be invalid), and marginalizing the vulnerable by scripting them out of the story.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /p02.html (2213 words)

	Guilford Chapter Excerpt
		Postmodernists abandon the idea that any language-scientific, political, or aesthetic-has a privileged vantage point on reality; instead, they insist on the intertextual nature and social construction of all meaning.
		For postmodernists, the belief of the avant-garde in the integrity of the individual as an activist agent, in language as revelatory of objective truth, and in faith in historical progress remain wedded to the mythic structure of modern rationalism.
		Instead of deep content, grand themes, and moral lessons, ludic postmodernists like Barth, Barthelme, and Nabokov are primarily concerned with the form and play of language and adopt sportive, ironic, self-reflexive, "metafictional" techniques that flaunt artifice and emphasize the act of writing over the written word.
	www.guilford.com /cgi-bin/cartscript.cgi?page=excerpts/best3EX.html&dir=polphil&cart_id= (16611 words)

	A Thinker’s Guide to Postmodernism by Steven Yates
		I offer them advisedly; postmodernists are slippery as eels, and if they excel at anything it is in weaseling their way out of assuming responsibility for having assumed or taken for granted these kinds of propositions.
		Postmodernists, like Marx before them, draw sweeping generalizations about how different groups live in different "universes." For Marx, of course, the difference was between bourgeoisie and proletariat.
		In sum, the postmodernist complaint seems to be that (as they might put it) reality is not completely transparent: we can’t just look at the world and achieve universal knowledge of it right off the bat.
	www.lewrockwell.com /yates/yates74.html (3363 words)

	The Gospel and Postmodernism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Postmodernists have just as much trouble understanding ideas which are not formulated in their paradigms as do other worldviews.
		This does not mean that the postmodernist personally holds these views, but rather he or she upholds the rights of other to have different views, values or lifestyles.
		Postmodernists tend to be allergic to systematic doctrine, but that does not mean that they do not need doctrine or shouldn’t be introduced to the foundational truths of Christianity.
	www.newwway.org /the_gospel_and_postmodernism.htm (10581 words)

	Books In Review: Postmodern Times
		Therefore both are guilty, in the eyes of postmodernists, of the sin of "universal or totalizing discourse," the distrust of which is the hallmark of postmodernism.
		Where modernists esteem a personal ideal of responsible agency and integrity, postmodernists reject "the authentic self" as an illusion, an attempt to reify a mere collocation and ensemble of social roles.
		It seems reasonable to posit that a postmodernist political order would be utterly ruthless, since all standards of truth-telling and consistency would have been rendered illegitimate-along with the concept of legitimacy itself.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9412/reviews/mcclay.html (1648 words)

	Christian Century: Postmodern fallacies: a response to Merold Westphal - Features
		Postmodernists, it seems, attempt to legitimize themselves by reacting to an overblown stereotype.
		Foucault and other postmodernists announce the death of the subject qua person with a human nature, not just the author or the autonomous self.
		It is highly significant that postmodernists deny the correspondence concept of truth, which states that a statement is true if and only if it corresponds to reality.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_15_120/ai_106098109 (1136 words)

	Flawed By Design: The Virtues And Limitations Of Postmodern Theory
		Postmodernists have hammered hard at the illusion propagated by modernist theorists that science would ultimately generate truth and, thereby, a better world for one and all (Clough, 1992, 1994; Denzin, 1996, 1997; Kincheloe and McLaren, 1994; Lather, 1991, 1993, 1995; Lemert, 1991, 1999; Lyotard, 1984; Richardson, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996; Seidman, 1991; Tierney, 1997).
		Postmodernists have a ready answer to this question: because the promises of the Enlightenment were lies.
		Secondly, postmodernists have argued that, as a consequence of eliminating the pre-eminence of truth standards, “learned dialogues” are likely to become populated by a greater number and diversity of voices (Lemert, 1999).
	theoryandscience.icaap.org /content/vol001.001/05mcgettigan.html (2070 words)

	Beck / POSTMODERNISM, PEDAGOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
		Postmodernists have helped us see that reality is more complex than we had imagined.
		Not that postmodernists always deny that this is what they do Derrida happily admits that he “crosses out” his own claims; but to admit a fault is different from overcoming it.
		Postmodernists often display an “easy pragmatism” which, while claiming to be open and tolerant, is merely superficial, since it fails to develop and use theory of this kind; its doctrines thus become dogmatic assertions, without explanation or justification.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /EPS/PES-Yearbook/93_docs/BECK.HTM (5775 words)

	Max Podstolski's Perspective on Postmodernism: A New Article - *spark-online discussion board...
		Where modernists were independently-minded, blazing their own individual trails, postmodernists cluster together in a collective herd mentality, protected by the theories of their star protagonists against the slings and arrows of nasty, ignorant, uninitiated doubters and sceptics like myself.
		Postmodernists seem to gloss over the fact that even marginalised readings, even deconstructionists' readings, are equally asking to be deconstructed, as really there is no end, no limit, to the process.
		While modernism is attacked for its inconsistencies, postmodernists apparently don't think this charge can possibly apply to them, which means their writings must be somehow exempt from attack or 'privileged' (the term they use to castigate the so-called hegemony of modernism).
	www.spark-online.com /ubb/Forum3/HTML/000003.html (11088 words)

	Postmodernism and the Christian Life, Part 1
		The important thing is that the postmodernist does not define truth in relation to reality; rather, for the postmodernist, truth is relative to a community or culture that shares a narrative.
		Postmodernists appear to claim that their own assertions about the modern era, about how language and consciousness work, etc., are objectively true and objectively rational, and they write literary texts and protest when different groups misinterpret the meanings of their writings.
		Sometimes postmodernists respond by denying that they take their own assertions and writing to be true, rational, objectively meaningful, and so forth.
	www.boundless.org /features/a0000917.html?ResultsOnly=kids (1782 words)

	Unacknowledged Roots and Blatant Imitation: Postmodernism and the Dada Movement
		To be a postmodernist, and to make nearly identical statements about the “postmodern” age (which is supposed to be fundamentally different from the modern era) is inherently illogical.
		The postmodernists are conservatives who believe that the time of the Dadaists was peaceful and meaningful, who fear the future, and who try desperately (and somewhat successfully) to establish themselves as leaders of the avant garde by repeating the sentiments of a movement that ended more than 70 years ago.
		Postmodernists often lump the two together, and then point to differences between surrealism and postmodernism as proof that it is not Dada redux.
	www.sociology.org /content/vol004.001/locher.html (6019 words)

	Resources for "Postmodernism, Plato, and Nietzsche"
		As a consequence, a significant portion of postmodernist critiques of "modernity" and efforts to build ostensibly alternatives are suspect from the outset as resting on a straw man account of "modernity" (indeed, of the Western tradition at large).
		Postmodernists intend to persuade us that we should be suspicious of any notion of self or subjectivity.
		Feminists and postmodernists may not uniformly welcome the universalist premises articulated by Benhabib; but her book should prompt them to ponder (more seriously than is often the case) the costs involved in a cursory dismissal of moral autonomy and responsibility." (Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame)
	www.drury.edu /ess/postmodernism/resources.html (2127 words)

	The Death of Truth Group Study Guide - Chapter 3: The postmodern response to modernist assumptions. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Postmodernists say that, since societies define words, and our thinking is rooted in language, we can't go beyond a culturally relative way of knowing.
		Postmodernists hold that all knowledge claims are arbitrary, and that none are ultimately more objective than another because we lack certainty.
		Postmodernists say all thought and reason is shaped by language.
	www.xenos.org /ministries/crossroads/dotstd.htm (1918 words)

	Sokal 2
		But if insightful postmodernist work rests only on truisms and insights from outside the postmodernist school and is independent of or even contrary to all the "b" and "c" items, then, no, I wasn’t too harsh.
		Steve and Heidi wrote that "we see much of the body of postmodernist social theory as not saying that there is no truth, but rather that there are multiple truths." To clarify they noted that Marxism, feminism, nationalism, etc. reveal multiple truths about oppression, while no one of these perspectives is alone true.
		If self critical postmodernists want to defend some core pomo beliefs and say that I go too far with my criticisms, like I want to defend the core scientific method and say that they go too far with their criticism, fine.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/sept96albert.htm (2055 words)

	Islamic Republic of Iran is Filtering My Site
		The postmodernists are the ones managing the various economic and social institutions of Islamic Republic of Iran.
		Medievalism has been ended centuries ago and it is a pity that postmodernists are making it their job to help revival of Medievalism in the 21st century, and thinking that they are helping the world by their wrong program.
		The achievements of humanity in the areas of human rights and democratic institutions are universal, and postmodernists justifying the absence of these rights and institutions, in any parts of the world, should be confronted and discarded.
	www.ghandchi.com /304-PostmodernismEng.htm (1559 words)

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