Postmodern theory may be the most loathed concept ever to have emerged from academia. Developed within literature and philosophy departments in the 1970s, it supposedly told us that facts were ...

I once asked a group of my students if they knew what the term postmodernism meant: one replied that it’s when you put everything in quotation marks. It wasn’t such a bad answer, because concepts such ...

Is there one philosophy we can blame for all that has gone wrong with human reasoning? Some believe so – it goes by the name of postmodernism. A method of thought that traces its roots to Europe in ...

In examining Trump as a product of our unique epoch, one of the sharpest analytical tools available is the theory of postmodernism, developed in the 1970s and 1980s by a host of theorists—perhaps most ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The wonderful thing about postmodernism is what Charles Jencks, the writer and designer who pretty much popularised ...

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There still remains much confusion over what postmodernity actually means, so take this sentence as only one attempt, courtesy of Urban Dictionary: “A term that you keep on hearing about in college ...

With a plot featuring accidental dismemberment, death by leeches, serial arsonists, and rampant child abuse, A Series of Unfortunate Events seemed to descend from the Grimm's Fairy Tales tradition of ...