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| − | Postmodernism is period following modernism and is based on proponents, or postmodernists, adopting a largely skeptical view of commonly held ideas in many areas including art, culture, literature, economics, philosophy and architecture. In the field of political science, post-modernism refers to the belief that political issues cannot be discussed only in the framework of traditionalist approaches to politics such as liberalism and realism as these theories provide too narrow a definition of values and meanings to accurately analyze political issues. | + | Postmodernism is period following modernism and is based on proponents, or postmodernists, adopting a largely skeptical view of commonly held ideas in many areas including art, [[culture]], literature, economics, philosophy and architecture. In the field of political science, post-modernism refers to the belief that political issues cannot be discussed only in the framework of traditionalist approaches to politics such as liberalism and [[Realism|realism]] as these theories provide too narrow a definition of [[values]] and meanings to accurately analyze political issues. |
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| + | == External links and references == | ||
| + | * [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on postmodernism] | ||
| + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#External_links Discourses of Postmodernism. Multilingual Bibliography by Janusz Przychodzen] | ||
| + | * [http://www.critcrim.org/critpapers/milovanovic_postmod.htm Dueling Paradigms: Modernist v. Postmodernist Thought * Characterizing a Fogbank: What Is Postmodernism, and Why Do I Take Such a Dim View of it?] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:31, 7 April 2014
Postmodernism is period following modernism and is based on proponents, or postmodernists, adopting a largely skeptical view of commonly held ideas in many areas including art, culture, literature, economics, philosophy and architecture. In the field of political science, post-modernism refers to the belief that political issues cannot be discussed only in the framework of traditionalist approaches to politics such as liberalism and realism as these theories provide too narrow a definition of values and meanings to accurately analyze political issues.
