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Peter Holtz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Does Postmodernism Really Entail a Disregard for the Truth? Similarities and Differences in Postmodern and Critical Rationalist Conceptualizations of Truth, Progress, and Empirical Research Methods.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020Co-Authors: Peter HoltzAbstract:Within this article, I will compare postmodernist and critical rationalist conceptualizations of epistemological key concepts such as truth, progress, and research methods. An analysis of Gergen's program for a postmodern psychology shows that a naive positivist understanding of truth is clearly incompatible with his postmodernist approach, whereas a correctly understood falsificationist use of truth as a guiding ideal may not be. However, postmodernists are often content with a diversity of voices as the endpoint of scientific activities, whereas critical rationalists such as Popper would put more emphasis on attempts to reach a common understanding. The differences between critical rationalists such as Popper and Deutsch and postmodernists such as Gergen are more complicated when it comes to conceptualizations of progress: whereas, postmodernists do not deny the existence of some forms of progress such as technological innovation, they argue that the modernist grand narrative, which views Western culture and the corresponding technological revolutions as being equal to epistemological progress and societal and political progress per se, has become untenable. Debates on possible negative consequences of modern technology are one example of evidence for this. Here, critical rationalists tend to engage in a legitimization discourse, sensu Lyotard, and to defend Western culture with all its deficiencies as a necessary precondition for evolutionary epistemic as well as societal and political progress, although they would agree with large parts of the postmodern critique of modernism. Postmodernists and critical rationalists would both agree that psychology as a field would benefit greatly, among other things, from a transition from a methods-oriented approach to scientific knowledge to a more problem-oriented approach, and from less methodological dogmatism. Taken together, Postmodernism and critical rationalism may not be as irreconcilable as it may seem at first glance.
Stuart Sim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO Postmodernism - The Routledge companion to Postmodernism
2013Co-Authors: Stuart SimAbstract:What is 'deconstruction'? What authors are considered 'postmodern novelists'? The Routledge Companion to Postmodern Thought combines a series of 14 in-depth background chapters with a body of A-Z entries to create an authoritative, yet readable guide to the complex world of Postmodernism. Following full-length articles on Postmodernism and philosophy, politics, feminism,lifestyles television, and other postmodern essentials, readers will find a wide range of alphabetically-organized entries on the people, terms and theories connected with Postmodernism, including: Peter Ackroyd; Jean Baudrillard; Chaos Theory; Death of the Author; Desire; Fractals; Michel Foucault; Frankfurt School; Generation X; Minimalism; Poststructuralism; Retro; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ; and Trans-avant-garde; Students interested in any aspect of postmodernist thought will find this an indispensable resource.
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the routledge companion to Postmodernism
2001Co-Authors: Stuart SimAbstract:What is 'deconstruction'? What authors are considered 'postmodern novelists'? The Routledge Companion to Postmodern Thought combines a series of 14 in-depth background chapters with a body of A-Z entries to create an authoritative, yet readable guide to the complex world of Postmodernism. Following full-length articles on Postmodernism and philosophy, politics, feminism,lifestyles television, and other postmodern essentials, readers will find a wide range of alphabetically-organized entries on the people, terms and theories connected with Postmodernism, including: Peter Ackroyd; Jean Baudrillard; Chaos Theory; Death of the Author; Desire; Fractals; Michel Foucault; Frankfurt School; Generation X; Minimalism; Poststructuralism; Retro; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ; and Trans-avant-garde; Students interested in any aspect of postmodernist thought will find this an indispensable resource.
Handel Kashope Wright - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an endarkened feminist epistemology identity difference and the politics of representation in educational research
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2003Co-Authors: Handel Kashope WrightAbstract:This paper proposes a Postmodernism and cultural studies influenced collorary to Cynthia Dillard's notion of "an endarkened feminist epistemology." The paper illustrates that Dillard has developed the notion principally as enabling of a project of recueillement : the articulation of a black feminist epistemology and research paradigm. What remains unaddressed in this project (albeit understandably), is the question of what difference difference makes within an endarkened epistemology. Illustrating that difference always compounds and complicates matters, the paper proceeds to draw on postmodernist and cultural studies theory to work with the ways in which race, gender, and sexual orientation interplay to produce an articulation that does not displace the notion of an endarkened feminist epistemology but rather runs parallel and acts as a corollary in the same dual project of contributing to both the "uriously belated" examination of race and racism in educational research in general, and the development o...
Robert A Segal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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all generalizations are bad Postmodernism on theories
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2006Co-Authors: Robert A SegalAbstract:The ramifications of Postmodernism for theology have been discussed voluminously. I want to consider the ramifications of Postmodernism for the social scientific study of religion, which above all means for theories of religion. Those ramifications are wholly negative: Postmodernism opposes theories, and does so because it opposes generalizations. Objections to generalizations and thereby to theories in the social sciences long antedate the rise of Postmodernism, but earlier objections are on modernist grounds. Postmodernism is oblivious to these criticisms and instead assumes that criticism begins with Postmodernism itself. Where at least some modernist criticisms are not easily answerable, all post-modern criticisms are easily answerable, for all of them rest on confusions about theorizing.
Steven Connor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Postmodernism and literature
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism, 2004Co-Authors: Steven ConnorAbstract:Against poetics Postmodernism was not the invention of literary critics, but literature can certainly claim to be one of the most important laboratories of Postmodernism. Perhaps because of the sheer weight of numbers in literary studies during the 1970s and 1980s, as compared with the numbers of scholars writing or students reading in architecture, film studies, or the embryonic disciplines of women's studies or cultural studies, ideas of Postmodernism tended in these formative decades to be framed by reference to literary examples. Literary Postmodernism has tended to be focused on one kind of writing, namely, narrative fiction. The most influential books on literary Postmodernism, such as Linda Hutcheon’s A Poetics of Postmodernism and Brian McHale’s Postmodernist Fiction , are devoted to postmodern fiction. It seems oddly fitting that what Hutcheon calls the “poetics of Postmodernism” should turn out to be most in evidence in its fiction. One might almost say that the move from modernism to Postmodernism involves a move from poetry to fiction. Whether in the puckered vortex of the imagist poem or in the dynamic anthologies of allusions, meanings, and voices characteristic of long poems like Eliot’s The Waste Land , Pound’s Cantos , David Jones’s In Parenthesis and William Carlos Williams’s Paterson , the effort of the modernist poem was to condense the complexity of time and history, to make them apprehensible in a single frame.
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the cambridge companion to Postmodernism
2004Co-Authors: Steven ConnorAbstract:Introduction Steven Connor 1. Postmodernism and philosophy Paul Sheehan 2. Postmodernism and film Catherine Constable 3. Postmodernism and literature Steven Connor 4. Postmodernism and art Stephen Melville 5. Postmodernism and performance Philip Auslander 6. Postmodernism and space Julian Murphet 7. Science, technology and Postmodernism Ursula K. Heise 8. Postmodernism and post-religion Philippa Berry 9. Postmodernism and ethics Robert Eaglestone 10. Law and justice in postmodernity Costas Douzinas Further reading Index.
