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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I’ve read a few books on the subject, though I’m probably less knowledgeable than OP. My understanding is that it’s broadly speaking a power play via rhetoric. In a traditional sense of philosophical postmodernism, it is an alteration of language to fit the narrative of the user. This can result in a power struggle where the speaker is the only one who truly knows the meaning of his/her words, rendering him more knowledgeable about a subject than anyone else by definition. The focus becomes less about knowledge and truth and more about how it’s communicated.
From my limited understanding, Michel Foucault is one of the big originators of this school of thought and reading some of his work might help in getting a better picture.
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