![]() For his part, Lawrence Kuznar labels postmodern anyone whose thinking includes most or all of these elements. ![]() The primary tenets of the postmodern movement include: (1) an elevation of text and language as the fundamental phenomena of existence, (2) the application of literary analysis to all phenomena, (3) a questioning of reality and representation, (4) a critique of metanarratives, (5) an argument against method and evaluation, (6) a focus upon power relations and hegemony, and (7) a general critique of Western institutions and knowledge (Kuznar 2008:78). These include scientific positivism, the inevitability of human progress, and the potential of human reason to address any essential truth of physical and social conditions and thereby make them amenable to rational control (Boyne and Rattansi 1990). ![]() As an intellectual movement postmodernism was born as a challenge to several modernist themes that were first articulated during the Enlightenment.
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