“I AM POST-MODERN ? I AM DEAD”!!
“I AM POST-MODERN ? I AM DEAD”!!
I.Sarkar
Postmodernism, particularly as an academic movement, can be understood as a reaction to Modernism in the Humanities. Whereas Modernism is often associated with identity, unity, authority, and certainty; Postmodernism is distinctly associated with difference, plurality, arteritis, and skepticism. Postmodernist school of philosophers believes that no definite terms, boundaries, or absolute truths exist. Postmodernism is a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative. Postmodernism claims to be the successor to the 17th century Enlightenment. For over four centuries, “Postmodern thinkers” have promoted and defended a new way of conceptualizing and rationalizing human life and progress. Postmodernists are typically atheistic or agnostic while some are inclined to follow eastern religious thoughts and practices. Many are naturalist including humanitarians, environmentalists, and philosophers. Postmodernism is not just a single thought, or a single idea. It encompasses a host of heterogeneous ideas in almost all the branches of 21st century life. For this vast magnitude and fathomless dimension any discussion on Postmodernism puts the reader into a great cyclonic wave where all his rational thoughts become helpless leaky boats.
At the very beginning, the reader’s confusion arises about the meaning of the term ‘Postmodernism’. The term is semantically not only anomalous but also chaotic, and confusing. The prefix ‘Post’ means ‘After’; in this sense Postmodernism is a contemporary phenomenon which comes after the Present. But how can it be possible? Logically it