utt postmodernism

1. Rejected absolute truth and sought to liberate humanity from labeling, marginalization, and suppression.
4. father of postmodernism
5. single, overarching interpretation, or grand story, of reality
8. method of literary analysis that questions the ability of language to represent reality adequately and seeks to discern and expose the purported underlying ideologies of a text.
9. man who heavily influenced Nitzsche
10. someone who believes that everything is without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value
11. a belief characterized by a strong belief in rationalism, empiricism, science, technological progress as well as skepticism towards the supernatural, special revelation, and the authority of religion

2. use to describe the denial of the existence or accessibility of objective truth
3. contends that human communication is not really about things but about the view and motivation of those involved in the conversation.
6. a reaction to modernism, which is suspicious of metanarratives and teaches that ultimate reality is inaccessible, knowledge is a social construct, and truth claims are political power players
7. human knowledge is not based on an accurate understand of reality but is the product of linguistically constructed forms of grammars that societies have developed over time.