I studied cognitive sciences, I read shit-ton of philosophers, I wrote my bachelor thesis on philosophy of mind, but still I don’t get what exactly is postmodernism
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Modernism is the attempt to showcase objective truth. Post-modernism is an attempt to showcase subjective truth. Modernism has an objective reality at its basis, and post-modernism has subjective reality as its basis. In modernism, one thing is true. In postmodernism, everything and nothing is true.
A lot of postmodernism is a rejection of modernism, so it’s a bit disjointed, but postmodernism is also a positive movement based around subjectivity.
‘What is art’ is one example. Modernism has categories of art, and postmodernism rejects those categories and puts forward say a toilet and calls it art, because art is subjective. It’s a troll of modernism and also making a positive point – a toilet CAN be just as much art as the Sistine Chapel, it’s all about what reality you live in and what you consider art. That toilet as art is intended to make you realize how many of your notions of categories is subjective.
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