Metanarratives Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Postmodernism TESTWhat was the problem for the West as it sought to escape Nihilism? - correct answer its nothingness What is Postmodernism an extension of? - correct answer modern thinking What happened to humanity's frame of reference when God died? - correct answer It became meaningless What does it mean that Postmodernism is an "incredulity towards metanarratives"? - correct answer no one has the authority to tell someone else what is true What is a metanarrative? - correct an...

PostmodernismPostmodernism - correct answer -is pessimistic regarding human progress since organizing principles (metanarratives) that bind a society together are not trustworthy -all claims to truth, no matter who makes them, must be questioned. This is required because cultural traditions and the way language is used means that what passes for truth is socially constructed Jacques Derrida - correct answer -his mission was to present a method for the proper interpretation of texts, especial...

Bible - Postmodernism Question and Answers rated A+ 2023/2024Can 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, an...

PostmodernismModernism - correct answer A movement post WWI-WWII that sought to fill the void that the lost generation and the shattering of Enlightenment ideals created. Modernists were earnest as they tried to both create a new way of interpreting the world around them, make people feel better (not Neitzsche obviously), and create CHANGE. Postmodernism - correct answer ... Neitzsche's Superman - correct answer He argued that life is a meaningless, chaotic storm in which Enlightenment id...

UTT PostmodernismPostmodernism - correct answer a skeptical worldview, founded as a reaction to modernism, which is suspicious of metanarratives and teaches that ultimate reality is inaccessible, knowledge is a social construct, and truth claims are political power players Correspondence Theory of Truth - correct answer the truth of a proposition is determined by how accurately it describes the facts of reality. Modernism - correct answer a belief characterized by a strong belief in ration...

Postmodernism TEST Question and answers 100% correct 2023/2024What was the problem for the West as it sought to escape Nihilism? - correct answer its nothingness What is Postmodernism an extension of? - correct answer modern thinking What happened to humanity's frame of reference when God died? - correct answer It became meaningless What does it mean that Postmodernism is an "incredulity towards metanarratives"? - correct answer no one has the authority to tell someone else what is t...

Sociology - Postmodernism and ReligionOverview of postmodernism - correct answer emerged in the1960s challenged 'modernist' theories that tried to explain society as whole. Postmodernists differ from other social theories because they claim that society has undergone fundamental changes, where as other traditional theories claim that society is simply evolving. - doesn't claim that religion is good or bad but simply seeks to explore some of the characteristics of society today, and hence, re...

PostmodernismWhat do postmodernists say? - correct answer They say that in the past 20 years or so, some sociologists have identified trends & developments which they claim show that industrial modernity is fragmenting or dissolving. They argue that industrial modernity is being replaced by a postmodern world in which many sociological ideas & concepts are becoming irrelevant. What does Taylor say are the characteristics of postmodern society? - correct answer The key social relationships ...

Postmodernism Question and answers correctly solved 2023/2024Modernism - correct answer A movement post WWI-WWII that sought to fill the void that the lost generation and the shattering of Enlightenment ideals created. Modernists were earnest as they tried to both create a new way of interpreting the world around them, make people feel better (not Neitzsche obviously), and create CHANGE. Postmodernism - correct answer ... Neitzsche's Superman - correct answer He argued that life is a mean...

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...