Flax asserts that “feminist theory and postmodern philosophy […] are partially constituted by Enlightenment beliefs”, but in such a way as to: “offer ideas and insights that are only possible because ...

SF has an advantage over most other disciplines in that it has had something like a theory of postmodernism ingrained in its futurism for many years. SF has observed with professional interest the ...

“much of the postmodern canon was even rooted in its own pessimistic grand narratives about the fallenness of Being, colonialism, the death of God, or disenchantment” (Metamodernism: The Future of ...

1Peter Bürger, Theory of the Avant-Garde, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1984. 2Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Manchester University Press, 1984, p ...

Here too there is some historical justification for attaching the label ‘Platonist’ to the view against which postmodernism is in revolt. For in Plato’s Republic the dialectical progress of theory ...