Do modernists and postmodernist tend to hold the same views, or are these two disciplines simply unrelated?
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2Postmodernism has been identified by Lyotard and includes philophers like Deleuze, Derrida, Vattimo. They "react" to previous philosophers (they call them modernist) and take nspiration from Nietzsche, etc. But there is no previous "movement" that call itself modernism. – Mauro ALLEGRANZA May 31 '16 at 19:55
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Good answer. But the confusion arises from the fact that I know someone who has studied modernism as part of a PhD in English literature but was unable to grasp what the subject was about, and having searched Wikipedia and still failed to understand I thought this site would be the best place to ask for clarification. Perhaps someone can help me. Thanks. – Jack Maddington May 31 '16 at 20:41
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Interesting that postmodernism is based on the notion that arts are separate from the sciences, which they are not. Science and logical thought can take over everything and it is impossible to reason decently without such tools. – Jack Maddington May 31 '16 at 20:47
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2Possible duplicate of What does it mean for something to be "post-modernist" as opposed to "modernist"? – Dec 19 '17 at 07:05
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See table comparisons (not necessarily within philosophy, but general flavour) e.g. here, here in Russian. – ttnphns Dec 19 '17 at 17:58
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Postmodernism is a response to modernism with less optimism about human progress. Both modernism and postmodernism hold that the previous philosophies are obsolete, and they rebel against classical culture through abstract and postmodern art. The difference is that modernism is optimistic about humans' ability to achieve progress while postmodernists hold all value as relative and do not necessarily believe in progress.
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