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ACTIVISM AS THE POSTMODERN AGENCY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
The modern era has been dominated by the culminating belief, expressed in different forms, that the world—and Being as such—is a wholly knowable system governed by a finite number of universal laws that man can grasp and rationally direct for his own benefit. This era, beginning with the Renaissance…gave rise to the proud belief that man, as the pinnacle of everything that exists, was capable of objectively describing, explaining and controlling everything that exists, and of possessing the one and only truth about the world.
(Havel, 1992, as cited in Ermarth, 2001b, p. 56)
I have now reviewed the application of postmodern theories and perspectives to some very divergent topics, ranging ...
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