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Comment on Post-modernism (150 words)

  • UPSC 2017
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  • Political Ideologies

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Postmodernism is less a doctrine than a stance towards all doctrines. Jean-François Lyotard gave it its formula in The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979): I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. It grew from disillusion with modernity's promise that reason and science would emancipate humanity, a promise shadowed by industrialised war, genocide and…

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