Thursday, 12 June 2014

AS Coursework

Post-Modernism Defintions

  • Post-modernism is a way of thinking about culture, philosophy, art etc. It says there is no real truth - knowledge is always made or invented and not discovered so a person cannot know something with certainty (all ideas/facts are 'believed' instead of 'known'). They may also think the truth is something different later on.
  • There is a set of theories which suggest society is undergoing a radical series of changes where modernism (a belief in science, rationality, industrialisation and bureaucracy) is either - coming to an end, being rejected by people or changing into a new order.