Postmodernism: A Critical Discourse

Abstract

The modern world endures a number of the crises, such as that of mentality. The characteristic features of the postmodern are deconstruction , radical plurality, relativity, eclecticism, fragmentariness , the replacement of reality by simulacra , structurelessness , and an unsystematic character, which are put forward as the basic catalysts along with other arguments. As a whole, postmodernity is also characterised as a transition from the categoricity of positive science in modernity to a generalised uncertainty. Within the limits of the noted criticism it is possible to single out the following positions: a criticism of postmodernism as a criticism of modernism, a criticism of postmodernism through the opposition of postmodernism to modernism, an identification of postmodernism with modernism and the metanarrative, a criticism of postmodernism as an illusion of polyculturality and pluralism, and also as a historical epoch. The criticism of modernism by postmodernism was a starting point for the criticism of postmodernism. Basically, postmodernism is criticised through modernism by means of its language and concepts.