Post Modernism rejects all Modernist Tenants
1. Relativism - no truths are absolute, “truths” are social constructions depending especially on race, class, gender, and generally power - status
2. Skepticism - objective knowledge is impossible (Postmodernism is “the theory of rejecting theories” - Tony Cliff
3. Logocentrism - reason is a tool by means of which certain empowered groups retain their hegemony, oppressing other groups, the emotions and experiences of such groups are to be valued over rational argument I ("Postmodernism is incredulity towards meta-narratives” - Jean-Francois Lyotard)
4. Liberation - we must fight oppression by exposing the categories and meta-narratives by which the empowered retain hegemony, valuing instead authenticity (Postmodernism is “the sense that the past is restricting, smothering, blackmailing us.” Umberto Eco)