Postmodernism - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Postmodernism Features of modern society? - correct answer 1) The Nation State 2) Capitalism 3) Rationality, science and technology 4) Tradition, custom and ascribed status become less important as the basis for our actions. What are modernist theories a part of? - correct answer Modernist theories are part of the enlightenment project - the idea that society can progress through the use of human reason. When did modern society first emerge? - correct answer Late 18th century. Capit...

Postmodernism TestPostmodernism is a skeptical worldview founded as a reaction to - correct answer Modernism What Postmodernism is suspicious of - correct answer Metanarratives Postmodernism teaches that ultimate reality is - correct answer Inaccessible According to Postmodernism, what is a social construct - correct answer Knowledge Postmodernism believes truth-claims are what - correct answer Political power plays Modernism followed what time period - correct answer The Enlighte...

Bible - PostmodernismCan you summarize the postmodern worldview in a few words (5) - correct answer -a reaction to the evils of modernism -views truth claims as political power plays -views truth is a social construct -ultimate knowledge is inaccessible -suspicious of metanarratives If "Postmodernism" means "after modernism" what is modernism - correct answer modernism is characterized by a strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress, as well as ske...

IHUM Chapter 40 Postmodernism Question and answers already passed 2023/2024Define what characterizes postmodern architecture. - correct answer adapting diverse aesthetics which gives emphasis on unique forms Whimsical celebrations of shapes Eclectic styles, incorporating many different styles into one building (anything but pure) Contradictory elements of design Opposite of "International Style" and Modernism Discuss the nature and significance of postmodernism and how it reflects plura...

POSTMODERNISM, definition, general features Question and answers rated A+ 2023/2024Postmodernism: the term - correct answer - like 'modernism' or 'realism', 'postmodernism' can be used a) as a period term, and b) as a term designating a certain trend in literature and other media a) period from the 1960s to around 2000, or, as some say, to the present (i.e. not quite immediately following modernism, since the 1940s and l 950s showed a 'reaction against modernist experimentation' in poet...

Postmodernism Test with Questions and Answers Postmodernism is a skeptical worldview founded as a reaction to ANSWER Modernism What Postmodernism is suspicious of ANSWER Metanarratives Postmodernism teaches that ultimate reality is ANSWER Inaccessible According to Postmodernism, what is a social construct ANSWER Knowledge Postmodernism believes truth-claims are what ANSWER Political power plays Modernism followed what time period ANSWER The Enlightenment Why Postmodernism sa...

Postmodernism Postmodernism - correct answer aesthetic, cultural *metafiction* (narrative within narrative) *self-reflexivity* *blurring of boundaries* (no high & low culture) *sheer play and existential commitment* *pastiche* (Comic Mona Lisa) (pieces of art alluding to what came before, revisit old style vs. Modernism, reinvent everything) *linguistic scepticism/deconstruction* (poststructuralism: meaning collapsed, my pen is not your pen) Meaning = unstable Not just literature, als...

Unit 09 Postmodernism Question and answers 100% correct 2023/2024In Postmodernism, what is prime reality--the really real? - correct answer Reality is socially constructed by those in power In Postmodernism, what is the nature of external reality, that is, the world around us? - correct answer Subject to social interpretation by those in power In Postmodernism, what is a human being? - correct answer Creates own meaning/morality by those in power In Postmodernism, what happens to a pers...

Postmodernism Question and answers already passed 2023/2024The starting point of postmodernism wisdom is____. a. found in proverbs denial of logic wledging the death of God is no wisdom in postmodernism - correct answer c The end of postmodern wisdom is____. denial of sin denial of logic wledging the death of god is no wisdo

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