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Postmodernism
Relates to western thought; has three eras:
- Pre modern:
- Before science came
- There were kings
- Church held roost
- Church issued bulls - Pope could issues - like fatwa
- Modernity (of Europe, US, etc.)
- Challenge to church
- Role for science
- Separate role for religion
- Industry
- Technology starts
- Capitalism
- Free enterprise
- Material success
- Slavery & genocide, Colonial loot leading to wealth - Rockefeller, Phillip Morris, etc.
- Done brilliant things due to Science, industrialisation, etc.
- Post modernity
- 20th century
- When they realised modernity produced some ugly things - communism, Nazism, etc.
- There is a crisis
- Is the latest fad
- It attacks modernity (attacks slavery, exclusivity)
- Attacked grand narratives of modernity
- Indians lack the context of our own culture and civilization, suffer from an inferiority complex, brought post-modernity into India, started "Deconstructing" and started the "Indian Grand Narrative".
- Modernism started with the industrial revolution.
- Modernism saw attempts to explain society, human behavior, politics, sexuality with all-embracing theories called Grand Narratives.
- Modernism rejected culture and tradition.
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