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social science subjects > sociology > social theory > critical theory > postmodernism
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > political theory > critical theory > postmodernism
social science subjects > sociology > social theory > cultural theory > postmodernism
social science subjects > sociology > social theory > method and metatheory > postmodernism
social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > political theory > postmodernism

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postmodernism  

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  • Postmodernism is a theoretical orientation often associated with deconstruction, the linguistic turn, neopragmatism, contextualism, contingency, irony, pluralism, social constructivism, antiessentialism, and the decentered self. While the term shares the skepticism toward religious supernaturalism that inheres in Enlightenment liberalism, it also carries with it a critique of modernity—its foundationalism, essentialism, universalism, monism, and word-fact correspondence. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Postmodernism]

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