13 Facts About Postmodern philosophy

Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed during the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Postmodern philosophy is often particularly skeptical about simple binary oppositions characteristic of structuralism, emphasizing the problem of the philosopher cleanly distinguishing knowledge from ignorance, social progress from reversion, dominance from submission, good from bad, and presence from absence.

Postmodern philosophy has strong relations with the substantial literature of critical theory, although some critical theorists such as Jurgen Habermas have opposed postmodern philosophy.

Jean-Francois Lyotard's seminal 1979 The Postmodern philosophy Condition stated that its hypotheses "should not be accorded predictive value in relation to reality, but strategic value in relation to the questions raised".

Epoch of Greek and Latin Postmodern philosophy was based on being in a quite precise sense: the existence exercised by things independently of human apprehension and attitude.

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The much briefer epoch of modern Postmodern philosophy based itself rather on the instruments of human knowing, but in a way that unnecessarily compromised being.

Postmodern philosophy originated primarily in France during the mid-20th century.

Postmodern philosophy drew from the world of the arts and architecture, particularly Marcel Duchamp, John Cage and artists who practiced collage, and the architecture of Las Vegas and the Pompidou Centre.

Postmodern philosophy argued that modern philosophies legitimized their truth-claims not on logical or empirical grounds, but rather on the grounds of accepted stories about knowledge and the world—comparing these with Wittgenstein's concept of language-games.

Postmodern philosophy further argued that in our postmodern condition, these metanarratives no longer work to legitimize truth-claims.

Postmodern philosophy suggested that in the wake of the collapse of modern metanarratives, people are developing a new "language-game"—one that does not make claims to absolute truth but rather celebrates a world of ever-changing relationships.

Postmodern philosophy criticized Western philosophy as privileging the concept of presence and logos, as opposed to absence and markings or writings.

Postmodern philosophy argued that truth was not about getting it right or representing reality, but was part of a social practice and language was what served our purposes in a particular time; ancient languages are sometimes untranslatable into modern ones because they possess a different vocabulary and are unuseful today.