English
Alternative spellings
post-modern
Adjective
en-adj
- Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism.
Quotations
1937, John Q. Stewart, "An Astronomer Looks at the Modern Epoch," The Scientific Monthly, vol. 44, no. 5 (May), p. 402,
:The nearer is a fact to the temporary limits of knoweldge, the more implicated becomes this regression and the more blurred ought to be statement of fact. Bridgman of Harvard recently has emphasized this conclusion, but his postmodern position has as yet made small impression.
2001, Kristen Renwick Monroe, "Paradigm Shift: From Rational Choice to Perspective," International Political Science Review, vol. 22, no. 2. (Apr), p. 167 n22,
:What I am objecting to is that aspect of postmodern thought that rejects the idea of any objective reality.
2005, Janet R. Barrett, "Planning for Understanding: A Reconceptualized View of the Music Curriculum," Music Educators Journal, vol. 91, no. 4. (Mar), p. 25,
:For an illustration of the differences between the traditional, positivist curriculum and the more postmodern reconceptualized curriculum, see Hanley and Montgomery.
Translations
trans-top|Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism
trans-mid
Portuguese: pós-moderno
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Derived terms
postmodernism noun
postmodernist noun
References
R:Dictionary.com|postmodern
"postmodern" in Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2007 Microsoft Corporation.
"postmodern" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press 2007.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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