postmodern

English - Turkish

Definition of postmodern in English Turkish dictionary: Postmodernizme ait, postmodern döneme ait; Postmodern, modernizm sonrası; postmodern; modern ötesi
postmodern architecture: postmodern mimari
postmodern theology: postmodern teoloji
postmodern volleyball: (Spor) eski voleybol
postmodernism: postmodernizm
Postmodernizm yanlısı değilim. - I'm not a fan of postmodernism.

Turkish - Turkish

Definition of postmodern in Turkish Turkish dictionary: Postmodernizm yanlısı

English - English

Definition of postmodern in English English dictionary: Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism
For an illustration of the differences between the traditional, positivist curriculum and the more postmodern reconceptualized curriculum, see Hanley and Montgomery.; a view that social and cultural reality, as well as social science itself, is a human construction; the late 20th-century tendency (in art, thought, and society) to distrust objectivity, authority, universality, and moral and ideological absolutes Postmodern artists tend to mix styles, cultures, techniques, and high and low forms of art; Previously, philosophy was a study seeking the truth Since the days of Plato we've been attempting to define the Universal Truths by which we can all agree and to determine how we can know these are Universal Truths (Systematic Philosophy) In the Postmodern world, philosophy takes on a new meaning (like all changes in philosophy, new men on the scene mean we need NEW TERMS! : ) We now have an Edifying Philosophy, which "aims at continuing a conversation rather than at discovering truth " " in the end, the postmodernworld is merely an arena of dueling texts "; of or relating to postmodernism; "postmodernist architecture"; {s} belonging to the postmodern movement in art and architecture (supports use of complex and decorative styles, with emphasis on local historical styles - opposed to the principles of modernism); In its most general sense, describes the blurring and breakdown of established canons (rules, standards), categories, distinctions, and boundaries; postmodernist
postmodernism: Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement
postmodernist: postmodern
postmodernist: An advocate or follower of postmodernism
postmodernism: End of the Twentieth Century artistic sensibility/cultural mindset, characterized by self-referentially, intertextuality, derivitiveness, excessive quotation--by an overpowering awareness of what Eco has called "the already said " The advent of Postmodernism has lead to an increased interest in--and decreased marginalization of--SF
postmodernism: A style of music that consciously draws from elements of other styles
postmodernism: {i} late 20th-century movement in art and architecture (supports use of complex and decorative styles, with emphasis on local historical styles - opposed to the principles of modernism)
postmodernism: genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
postmodernism: a belief that individuals are merely constructs of social forces, that there is no transcendent truth that can be known; a rejection of any one world view or explanation of reality as well as a rejection of the reality of objective truth
postmodernism: A style and movement in architecture that succeeded modernism Compared with modernism, postmodernism is less geometric, less functional, less austere, more playful, and more willing to include elements from diverse times and cultures; postmodern now describes comparable developments in music, literature, visual art, and anthropology
postmodernism: if Descartes is seen as the father of modernism, then postmodernism is a variety of cultural positions which reject major features of Cartesian (or allegedly Cartesian) modern thought Hence, views which, for example, stress the priority of the social to the individual; which reject the universalizing tendencies of philosophy; which prize irony over knowledge; and which give the irrational equal footing with the rational in our decision procedures all fall under the postmodern umbrella
postmodernism: A term used to describe the willfully plural and eclectic forms of contemporary art and design
postmodernism: A general cultural development, especially in North America, which resulted from the general collapse in confidence of the universal rational principles of the Enlightenment
postmodernism: a style of building, painting, writing etc, developed in the late 20th century, that uses a mixture of old and new styles as a reaction against modernism. Any of several artistic movements since about the 1960s that have challenged the philosophy and practices of modern arts or literature. In literature this has amounted to a reaction against an ordered view of the world and therefore against fixed ideas about the form and meaning of texts. In its reaction against Modernist ideals (see Modernism) such as autotelic art and the original masterpiece, postmodern writing and art emphasize devices such as pastiche and parody and the stylized technique of the antinovel and magic realism. Postmodernism has also led to a proliferation of critical theories, most notably deconstruction and its offshoots, and the breaking down of the distinction between "high" and "low" culture
postmodernism: is still a much debated term within the history of art When it started, what it means, and even whether or not it exists at all are all questions still asked by many artists and academics alike In general terms any work of art made after the Modernist era should be considered postmodern A reasonable assertion would be that the term was first applied to a trend in the architecture of the late sixties This new form of creation concerned itself with combining styles of past movements and allowed for the viewer to assert her own interpretation as an important part of the work
postmodernism: A cultural and intellectual trend of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries characterized by emphasis on the ideas of the decenteredness of meaning, the value and autonomy of the local and the particular, the infinite possibilities of the human existence, and the coexistence, in a kind of collage or pastiche, of different cultures, perspectives, time periods, and ways of thinking Postmodernism claims to address the sense of despair and fragmentation of modernism through its efforts at reconfiguring the broken pieces of the modern world into a multiplicity of new social, political, and cultural arrangements
postmodernist: {i} person who opposes the modernist movement, one who favors postmodernism (movement that emphasizes local characteristics instead of the modernist stress on international unity)
postmodernist: of or relating to postmodernism; "postmodernist architecture
postmodernist: of or relating to postmodernism; "postmodernist architecture"