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Postmodernity.
Postmodernity
Postmodernity is a social and political condition, distinct from modernity, closely related to postmodernism. For social, political, technological, and economic determinists, it is a major cause of the emergence of postmodernism and postmodern culture. For others, it is a mode of society which go hand in hand with postmodernism. Postmodernity may be a reason for some to choose postmodernism as a way of life, epistemological, ethical, or aesthetic position.
Postmodernism is an epistemological, aesthetic, ethical, and/or cultural attitude which is said to be distinctive from that of modern society.
The defining characteristics of postmodernity are not unanimously agreed on. Yet there are some characteristics that are frequently mentioned:
In politics,
- The end of the Cold War, an end of overarching world order.
- Increasingly diverse and complex landscape of various groups religious, ethnic, and others, sometimes sharing a political agenda, other times having conflicts.
In the economy,
In technology,
- An increasing role of information and communications technologies in society.
- The emergence of digital technologies which allow nearly perfect copying of digital information with ease.
- The rise of information networks, especially the Internet.
- Improvements in media technologies in making realistic presentiations of things.
References
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was a French philosopher and literary theorist well-known for his embracing of postmodernism after the late 1970s. He published "La Condition postmoderne: Rapport sur le savoir" (The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge) (1979)
From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: the Local/Global Context by Ihab Hassan [1].
Studies in postmodernity
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change by David Harvey
Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity by Marvin Trachtenberg
Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity by John Lechte
The Origins of Postmodernity by Perry Anderson
A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity by Stanley M. Hauerwas
Intimations of Postmodernity by Zygmunt Bauman
Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity (Special Publications Series (Institute of British Geographers), 33) by Georges Benko
Postmodernity, by David Lyon
Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity by William Rasch
Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture) by Lester Faigley
Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity, and the Americas by David B. Batstone
Postmodernity (Key Ideas Series) by Barry Smart
Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspective on Science, Religion, and Ethics by Nancey Murphy
Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity (Religion and Modernity) by Paul Heelas
Critical Conditions : Postmodernity and the Question of Foundations by Horace L. Fairlamb
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