POSTMODERNISM

Postmodernism is the name given to the period of literary criticism, it comes after modern period. What sets Postmodernism apart from its predecessor is the reaction of its practitioners to the rational, scientific and historical aspects of the modern age. The postmodernist is concerned with impression and unreliability and epistemology, the study of what knowledge is. Postmodernism might be dated in the post-World War II era, roughly the 1950’s. In 1967 Jacques Derrida presented his first paper Of Grammatology where he outlined the principles of deconstruction. This is the term created that defines the basic premise of Postmodernism, it is critique of the criteria of certainty, identity, and truth. The Postmodernism philosophic paradigm is expressed in the following way: there is no identifiable truth. The current Postmodern belief is that a correct description of Reality is impossible. Post-modernism is arguably the most depressing philosophy ever to spring from the western mind. It’s allusive to the point of being impossible to articulate. Originality is dead. All religions and utopian visions are dead. The post-modern understanding that our language is too imprecise, our senses too limited and deceptive to ever absolutely describe Reality has been caused by the failure of physicist and philosophers to discover / correctly describe Reality. Postmodernism is “post” because it denies the existence of any ultimate principles. The problem with of Postmodernism is that it leaves us without absolute foundations for determining  absolute truth about how we should think and live wisely on earth.