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Postmodernism
Late 20th-century critique of grand narratives, objective truth, and Enlightenment reason. Everything is text, power shapes knowledge, meaning is unstable. Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard.
#postmodernism
#deconstruction
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#narrative
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Foucault concept
Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Power/knowledge — power produces truth, not just represses it. Discipline and Punish, History of Sexuality. Genealogy of institutions: prisons, asylums, clinics. Discourse shapes what we can think.
Derrida concept
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). Deconstruction — texts undermine their own claims. There is nothing outside the text (il n'y a pas de hors-texte). Differance, logocentrism, binary oppositions. The most controversial philosopher of the 20th century.