The Modern Faces of Postmodernism

Answering “who are those 'postmodernists'?” (p.22 ff.), Susen only offers a “necessarily selective list” of authors, ranging from Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Wittgenstein to Zygmunt Bauman and Bruno Latour (p. 23). Different–no less then twelve–criteria, which according to Susen, usually are applied in the literature when dealing with postmodern authors, e.g., geographical or national origin, generational belonging, discursive positioning, thematic contribution, or intellectual influence, render a picture of complex concatenations, but only play a limited part for Susen's arguments.
To take just an example: Besides the three „fundamental tensions“ in epistemology mentioned above, Susen would identify another eight “key dimensions” of the shift between a “positivist” and a “postpostivist” epistemological agenda, each of this dimensions being itself grounded on multiple theoretical and methodological proposals.

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Nicolae, S. The Modern Faces of Postmodernism. Hum Stud 41, 517–521 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-018-9478-4

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