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Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from modern approaches that had previously been dominant.  The term "postmodernism" comes from its prejection of the "modern" scientific mentality created by the [[Enlightenment]].  Both movements coexist today, as does traditionalism.

Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from modern approaches that had previously been dominant.  The term "postmodernism" comes from its prejection of the "modern" scientific mentality created by the [[Enlightenment]].  Both movements coexist today, as does traditionalism.

==History==

==History==

Postmodernism emerged from "structuralism" and "poststructuralism" in French philsoophy of the 1960s, who were influenced by the German philosopher Nietzsche (1844-1900); it adopted a good deal of poststructuralism, but it broadened and extended poststructuralism to topics that focused on a wide-ranging critique of the modern world.<ref> Historian [[Arnold Toynbee]] first used the term "postmodern" in 1954, but in a very different sense.</ref>  Influential French postmodernists include  

Postmodernism emerged from "structuralism" and "poststructuralism" in French philosophy of the 1960s, who were influenced by the German philosopher [[Nietzsche]] (1844-1900); it adopted a good deal of poststructuralism, but it broadened and extended poststructuralism to topics that focused on a wide-ranging critique of the modern world.<ref> Historian [[Arnold Toynbee]] first used the term "postmodern" in 1954, but in a very different sense.</ref>  Influential French postmodernists include  

Lyotard (who identified and rejected the master narratives of modernism), Derrida (with his notion of deconstruction if a texct to see what really motivated it), Foucault (who stressed that power creates or causes accepted knowledge)  and Baudrillard (who introduced notions of implosion, hyperreality, and simulacra).  

Lyotard (who identified and rejected the master narratives of modernism), Derrida (with his notion of deconstruction if a text to see what really motivated it), Foucault (who stressed that power creates or causes accepted knowledge)  and Baudrillard (who introduced notions of implosion, hyperreality, and simulacra).  

Other favorite terms are: ''spectacle, pastiche, ambiguity, doubt, contradiction, novelty, reflexivity, otherness, difference, identity, heterogeneity, upheaval, carnival, turbulence, instability, discontinuity, limitless choice, and flux.''

Other favorite terms are: ''spectacle, pastiche, ambiguity, doubt, contradiction, novelty, reflexivity, otherness, difference, identity, heterogeneity, upheaval, carnival, turbulence, instability, discontinuity, limitless choice, and flux.''

==Ideas==

==Ideas==

Some postmodernist ideas are:

Some postmodernist ideas are: