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  • noun Plural form of postmodernist.

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  • So in this context, Mr. Windschuttle is complaining about postmodernists 'apparently slipshod authoring (using Foucault's fictional example to define a concept under discussion), while the postmodernists themselves are busy discussing, not the provenance of the quote, but how it captures some essence of the way cultures interact (in other words, the postmodernists are acting like postmodernists).

    Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • So in this context, Mr. Windschuttle is complaining about postmodernists 'apparently slipshod authoring (using Foucault's fictional example to define a concept under discussion), while the postmodernists themselves are busy discussing, not the provenance of the quote, but how it captures some essence of the way cultures interact (in other words, the postmodernists are acting like postmodernists).

    Borges: Pathways of the (Postmodern) Mind Heather McDougal 2009

  • Contemporary writers, sometimes called postmodernists, attempt to represent multiple streams of thought by using not just digressive, multiclausal sentences, but with footnotes.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

  • I don't think that "postmodernists" really say that we haven't yet reached objectivity.

    The View From Everywhere: Impartiality, Objectivity and Other Ideals James F. McGrath 2009

  • The new issue of Axess has an article by Richard Wolin that is basically a diatribe about "postmodernists" and "postructuralists"; adjectives that appear to cover anyone Wolin disagrees with, whether on the left or right, authoritarian or anarchistic, conservative or progressive.

    Archive 2007-07-01 enowning 2007

  • The new issue of Axess has an article by Richard Wolin that is basically a diatribe about "postmodernists" and "postructuralists"; adjectives that appear to cover anyone Wolin disagrees with, whether on the left or right, authoritarian or anarchistic, conservative or progressive.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • Douglas, both critiquing the "postmodernists" who castigate Wagner for being an arrogant German nationalist and showing that Mozart was just as big a nationalist.

    Wagner III: The Reckoning Patrick J. Smith 2006

  • The field is fairly vast--MLA pulls up over 500 articles and books published in the past two decades, most of them thematic or contextual studies--and I feel rather hesitant about generalizing about what the "postmodernists" are or are not doing.

    Scattered Musings (occasionally academic) 2006

  • Douglas, both critiquing the "postmodernists" who castigate Wagner for being an arrogant German nationalist and showing that Mozart was just as big a nationalist.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Patrick J. Smith 2006

  • This is the sort of thing that makes me doubt the current conventional wisdom among some folk who call themselves "postmodernists" (though I know not all postmodernists think this way, and it may be a misrepresentation of the PM mainstream) that everyone is equally biased and there is no such thing as an objective point of view.

    UUpdates - All updates 2009

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