Education theory What is Postmodernism? (Modernism and Post modernism)

Hello, this is Ajaz Ahmed Bhatt. When discussing the trend of modern educational philosophy, postmodernism can be cited as one of the trends referred to as a relatively recent trend. In this class, we will look at the concept and meaning of postmodernism.

1. The definition of postmodernism 

Different scholars have different definitions of postmodernism. This is because postmodernism contains various, and sometimes contradictory elements together. Post-modernism is sometimes interpreted as'postmodernism','antimodernism' or'postmodernism' due to the ambiguity of the prefix post. Postmodernism is interpreted as a means of inheriting modernism, and antimodernism or postmodernism is interpreted as opposing or trying to escape from modernism. Kim Wook-dong (1990) According to, postmodernism is a logical extension and succession of modernism, a critical reaction to modernism, and a conscious break. In other words, postmodernism seeks to provide a new alternative by overcoming the limitations and contradictions inherent in modernism while logically inheriting the basic principles of modernism including the avant-garde art movement and developing it to the extreme. Therefore, postmodernism becomes a successive break from modernism, and it has the characteristics of all three: postmodernism, which is the succession of modernism, antimodernism against modernism, and postmodernism trying to escape.

2. Features of Postmodernism

 

  Postmodernism implies a dialectical, contradictory, or even hostile relationship to modernism, so in order to understand confrontation, we need to understand exactly what modernism was. The ideological modernity, called modernity, began after the enlightenment began in the 18th century, but it has survived until the 19th century based on the technological rationality and technological optimism of capitalism. However, the ideological logic of modernity faces skepticism and criticism through the realm of art, modernism. In other words, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Western society expressed the extreme'contradiction of early capitalism' in social and economic aspects. Therefore, modernism started with the rejection and criticism of social and economic modernity, followed by rejection and criticism of ideological modernity. Nevertheless, however, modernism has come to have an aesthetic style that does not give up hope for the reflective (reasonable) subject and historical prospects that are the basis of modernity. Postmodernism can be summarized simply as the rejection of the reflective subject and prospective world perception of this modernism. Hassan Lee (1990) also drew a schematic to distinguish the difference between modernism and postmodernism.

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