| A | B |
|---|
| Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) | God is dead and Truth is an illusion |
| Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) | Deconstruction: no real meaning to any text. Words don’t have meaning = Nothing has value |
| Michel Foucault (1926-1984) | Critique of the Discourses of Power (Language is used to oppress others) = language is violence |
| Michel Foucault 2 (1926-1984) | big sexuality influence: He was a homosexual |
| Richard Rorty (1931-): | antifoundationalism, antiessentaialism -We cant know what is true for everyone, only what is true for ourselves |
| Martin Heidegger | There’s no absolute anything, things only exist after their named |
| Rejection of Essentialism | “Truth is nothing more than interpretation |
| Rejection of universal explanation | There can be no explanation that applies to every one “all metanarratives are tools of oppression" |
| Role of interpretive community | “Meaning can only be derived from one cultural context” “Words don’t reflect things just other words” |
| Rejection of traditional logic | all interpretations are valid Coherence and consistency are illusions |
| Literature | deconstruction |
| Philosophy | Relativism, Pragmatism |
| Art | Dada, Surrealism, Pop-nihilism |
| "Ism" WorldViews... | Offer an alternate salvation |
| Postmodernists... | Judge truth by feelings not judge feelings by truth |
| History | Anti-metanarratives; revisionists |
| Sociology | multiculturalism |
| Multiculturalism | there’s only diversity-you are your culture |
| There is no truth is a... | truth statement |
| Announces authoritatively that ... | authoritative announcements are invalid |
| Offers a metanarrative that... | there are no metanarratives |
| Claims it is immoral to | oppress people with morality |
| The only thing that is not tolerated is... | intolerance |
