Quotes about Postmodernism

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In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation. — Theodor W. Adorno
Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: h — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sic — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and e — Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word — G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
Obi-Wan Kenobi once said ‘your eyes can deceive you, don’t trust them.’ It seems to be getting harder. Distinguishing re — Huey Freeman
Now, in the academy, you cannot just say anything about male theory. You have to proceed with an immanent critique, that — Somer Brodribb
Women are no longer required to be chaste or modest, to restrict their sphere of activity to the home, or even to realiz — Rosemarie Tong
I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value, but simply of cert — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – — Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different ro — Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, ne — Jim Jarmusch
We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive fra — James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. — Christopher Hitchens
Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted s — Christopher Hitchens, For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind. — Frederick Glaysher
Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you — Neil Gaiman, Brief Lives
This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abs — Larry McCaffrey
The radical hermeneutic of suspicion that characterizes all of post-modernity is essentially nihilistic, denying the ver — N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I h — Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice