In an essay entitled “Richard Rorty and the Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth” Dean Geuras, Professor of Philosophy at the Southwest Texas State University wrote:
There is much that both Christians and non Christians can learn and apply from the dead-ended emptiness of postmodernism.
Jean-François Lyotard – as a leading figure in the postmodernist movement - described Postmodernism as a historical/cultural condition based on a dissolution of master narratives or meta-narratives, a crisis in ideology when ideology no longer appears transparent. Frederic Jameson himself described Postmodernism as a movement in arts and culture corresponding to a new configuration of politics and economics, or what he calls "late capitalism": transnational consumer economies based on global scope of capitalism, which I would call Global Monopolistic Corporate Capitalism. Lyotard was also responsible for the infamous phrase ““The Postmodern would be that which in the modern invokes the unpresentable in presentation itself”.
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