
Sunday in the Park with Theory
The Religious Studies Project
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Post Modernism in the Anglo American Academy
Post modernism is a very specific kind of social kind. I'm selecting from the range of possible post modernism, different things that are labelled as post modernism. And i am selecting things that certain kinds of works that have been clustered together in the academy. And i have a causal story for why those works were clustered together. It had fairly stable characteristics and tended to focus on five different types of problems. But then once it became a model, it became an antithetical model against which people defined themselves in opposition. There are two other key features. One many of the philosophical issues associated with pos modernism preceded the arrival of the french theory in the Academy. The second point is that
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