post-modernism
post-modernismThis term, in its current use, originated in aesthetic discussion to describe movements in art during the 1960s (such as the work of Andy Warhol) that broke with modernism, played with a variety of fragmentary aesthetic forms, and made no claim to representational realism. The emphasis on plurality, diversity, and relativity encouraged some intellectuals to promote a wider reconstruction of thought. These claims were made in texts by such writers as Jean-François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard, augmented by a particular reading of a further selection of texts by post-structuralists such as Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. (It should be noted, however, that most if not quite all of these thinkers would deny the applicability of the label to their work—a fittingly ironic state of affairs, some would say.) However, what it is that this body of theory (and...
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