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An 11 page paper which defines the term ‘postmodernism,’ examines its origins, evolution into a distinctive school of thought, and considers how it differs from other major philosophies. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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found more in what it is not than what it actually is. This is a reactionary school of thought with origins deeply rooted in European philosophy (Smith 2).
Though its primary influences were the French Marxist thinkers of the 1950s, postmodernism can be traced back to the Swiss Dada artistic philosophy that became popular after World War I.
Dadaist art consisted predominantly of collages or a unique framing of objects, the arrangement of which became more important than the actual works themselves. After the catastrophic end
of World War II, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, philosophers began to seriously question whether anything had any type of meaning whatsoever or if life was little more
than an exaggerated illusion. Perhaps as a way of explaining mans continued inhumanity towards man, postmodernism commenced in earnest during the 1950s initially as a literary school of thought,
"a response to artistic innovation" in fiction and poetry (Lemon 361). The trend quickly outgrew its literary boundaries, and spread quickly, affecting every aspect of contemporary thought. According
to one of its proponents, "Postmodern... designates the state of our culture following the transformations which, since the end of the nineteenth century, have altered the game rules for science,
literature, and the arts" (Geyh 1). Postmodernism could be defined in a single sentence as a skeptical philosophy that refutes the notion of a binary or dualistic universe. This means
there are no polar opposites of good and evil, right or wrong, knowledge or ignorance because all are basically distorted interpretations of like concepts. As its name implies, it
is an offshoot of modernism, which dates back to the Enlightenment (Geyh 1). But once again, with postmodernism, nothing is ever as it seems. While it began as
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