CHAPTER 8
Post-Modernism
INTRODUCTION
Post-modernism emerges in the late twentieth-century as a sharp reaction against the negative consequences of modernity. Post-modernism challenges some basic assumptions of modernity. Post-modernism first emerges in the field of art and literature, and later on in other disciplines. It rejects the idea that there is a single meaning of truth.
It subscribes to the idea that there are multiple truths and multiple realities. There is no objective reality and rejects the idea of meta-narrative. The term post-modernism was first used by Jean Francois Lyotard in his book ‘The Post-Modern Condition (1979).’ In Jean Francois Lyotard’s words, it is ‘incredulity towards meta-narratives.’ It simply means disbelief in ...
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