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While it's amusing for us computer science majors to poke fun at the scientific irrelevance of postmodernism, its influence is undeniable. Few academic fields

by akamaka 18y ago

While it's amusing for us computer science majors to poke fun at the scientific irrelevance of postmodernism, its influence is undeniable. Few academic fields have been left untouched by postmodern thinking, and you'll quickly run into it if you're studying art, literature, philosophy, architecture, social science, feminism, political science, and more. A religious person might rightly point out that Darwin's theory of evolution hasn't changed his faith in a higher power, but it's foolish of him to fail to notice that the world around him has been revolutionized.

philwelch 18y ago
"Few academic fields have been left untouched by postmodern thinking, and you'll quickly run into it if you're studying art, literature, philosophy, architecture, social science, feminism, political science, and more." Though, if you're studying philosophy in the analytic tradition (most English-speaking philosophy since the turn of the 20th century), postmodernism and its antecedents in continental philosophy have been consciously rejected in an attempt for greater linguistic precision.