Summary of Postmodernism

The teaching that there is no objective reality, but rather many subjec� tive realities, or in this case, that the subjective realities are on an equal par with the objective reality (you're dead!) in turn influences students' views of the primacy of knowledge. To critics, history is no longer the search for what really happened, but rather the victor's interpretation as seen through the lens of power and oppression, and it bears a cultural and political focus. Literature is no longer a study of what the author meant, but of the feelings it arouses in the reader because of his or her cultural perspective. Reading the classics is no longer required because they're sexist and racist and not germane to today's political realities. Truth must be evaluated in the context of the speaker's socioeconomic frame of reference, and teachers, when they lack the political authority of having the same cultural identity as their students, cannot presume to teach them, but can only be "guides at the side."

Notes:

The relativity of knowledge.

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Fool Me Twice

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Otto , Shawn Lawrence (2011-10-11), Fool Me Twice, Rodale Press, Retrieved on 2013-01-08

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Folksonomies: politics science

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29 JAN 2013

Critical Theory is an Art, Not a Science

Summary of Postmodernism > Concession > The Problem with the Term "Music Theory"
Critical Theory and Postmodernism frame themselves as science with absolutist position that there are no absolutes and all knowledge is subject to relativity. Robert Greenberg's explanation of why "Music Theory" is not theory, but art, serves as an excellent retort to the postmodernist intellectual snobbery.

Folksonomies: culture art empiricism two cultures postmodernism cultural relativity