American Postmodernism and Beyond

I. Introduction\nPostmodernism is an age which is much than difficult to grasp or define. There is no stop in history that prat be marked as the beginning of the postmodern era. It was more than of a slow spay in critique, philosophy and practice. some(prenominal) philosophers, historians and writers tried to capture postmodern features, besides this itself already is an aversion to the postmodernism aim. There is no such(prenominal) thing as an comment of the world and its theories. No genius shall claim to have the ane right answer, or as the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard names it, a meta-narrative. The the great unwashed being associated to this period of clock beat seem to have had a rebellious attitude towards the troupe at that point. Things werent interpreted for granted anymore. Major theories were questioned and bad criticized. It wasnt all slightly finding solution anymore, but challenging the problem itself. iodin of the most well-known postmodern concerns according to this is the term deconstruction, certain by Jacques Derrida. His approach is to advert with certain strategies of reading and write texts. He therefore criticizes the sack of function over importation that, according to him, has taken step forward in this epoch. There ar no opposites only differences and something that is take can be as important as the present. another(prenominal) famous postmodernist of that time was Jean Boudrillard, a French philosopher, who wrote the well-known book Simulacra and dissembling. It introduces the concept of seeking for testing with the consanguinity among reality and society. some important about his oeuvre is the introduction to his theses of a hyperreality. The perceived reality blurs and splits up deep down four phases until no relationship to any reality is left. naive realism the big issue in postmodernism, because its definition is highly discussed. And this leads to the of import problem and criticism of postmodern theories itself. If they claim that there is no abs...