Assess the view that science has replaced religion as the main ideological influence in society today? (33 marks) It will be important to assess the view that science has replaced religion as the main ideological influences in society today. The enlightenment project could be seen as the start of the debate between religion and science as the main ideological influence in society today. As moments in the 16th century had lead to the first real questions of religion being asked. As the contribution
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permanentrevolution.net/entry/514 (Accessed 26/02/13) Modernity in the Sequence of Historical Eras - 2008 Paul Connelly [Online] http://www.darc.org/connelly/religion5.html (Accessed 26/02/13) The Postmodern Condition - A Report on Knowledge Jean-François Lyotard (1979) – [Online] http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postmodernism/lyotard_text.htm (Accessed 26/02/13)
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29. The postmodern Since this book does not attempt to introduce different critical schools or historical periods of literature‚ it may seem inappropriate to include a chapter on the postmodern. In the following pages‚ however‚ we wish to suggest that this topic provides us with an invaluable set of terms for thinking about literary and other cultural texts‚ that to a significant degree it involves ways of thinking which are unavoidable in the twenty-first century. The word ‘postmodern’ itself
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43. Lydon‚ M. 2001. Veduta on Discours‚ figure. Yale French Studies‚ 99: 10–16. [CrossRef] 44 45. Lyotard ‚ J. F. 1984 . Driftworks . R. McKeon New York : Semiotext(e)/Foreign Agents Series . 46. Lyotard‚ J. F. 1989a. “Acinema”. In The Lyotard Reader‚ Edited by: Benjamin‚ A. 169–180. Malden‚ MA: Blackwell Publishers Inc. 47. Lyotard‚ J. F. 1989b. “The dream-work does not think”. In The Lyotard Reader‚ Edited by: Benjamin‚ A. 19–55. Malden‚ MA: Blackwell Publishers Inc. 48. MacDougall‚ D. 2006
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Postmodern materialism and subsemantic cultural theory 1. Structuralist rationalism and the subcapitalist paradigm of reality In the works of Gibson‚ a predominant concept is the concept of patriarchialist truth. The primary theme of the works of Gibson is not narrative‚ but neonarrative. But the closing/opening distinction prevalent in Gibson’s Neuromancer is also evident in Idoru‚ although in a more mythopoetical sense. Lyotard’s model of subdialectic Marxism suggests that the significance
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Nihilism: Encyclopedia II - Nihilism - Nihilism in Philosophy Nihilism - Nihilism in Philosophy Though the term nihilism was first popularized by Ivan Turgenev (see below)‚ it was first introduced into philosophical discourse by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819)‚ who used the term to characterize rationalism‚ and in particular Immanuel Kant’s "critical" philosophy in order to carry out a reductio ad absurdum according to which all rationalism (philosophy as criticism) reduces to nihilism
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postmodern theories of intertexuality‚ hyperreality‚ and metanarratives. Before delving into The Simpsons‚ some major theoretical aspects of postmodernism in aesthetic production are outlined. Three of the most prominent theorists of postmodernism – Lyotard‚ Baudrillard and Jameson – are introduced‚ as well as their theories which will be brought into consideration in the following chapters. The objective of the essay is to apply these theories to The Simpsons and thereby reveal some of the foremost
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of Postmodern Philosophers 2.3.1 Levinas: “An Ethics before Ethics” 2.3.1.1 A Move from Totalization 2.3.1.2 Recovery of Autonomy of Subjectivity 2.3.1.3 Levinas’ Ethics as a Foundation for Radical Pluralism 2.3.2 Ethics of Jean-Francois Lyotard 2.3.2.1 Demise of Grand Narrative 2.3.2.2 The Differend 2.4 Characteristics of Postmodern Ethics 2.4.1 Postmodern Ethics: An Ethics without Ethical Code 2.4.2 Postmodern Ethics: An Ethics of Relativism 2.5 Postmodern Ethics: A Buddhist
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narrative is a story. So a metanarrative is a story about a story encompassing and explaining other “little stories” within the total scheme of things. The concept of metanarratives was criticized by Jean-Francois Lyotard in his work The Postmodern Condition: A Report of Knowledge (1979). Lyotard refers to what he describes as the postmodern condition‚ which he characterized as increasing skepticism toward the totalizing nature of “metanarratives” (or grand narratives) typically characterized by some
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Polity Press. * Gosselin‚ Paul (2012) Flight From the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West. volume I. Samizdat [1] (ISBN 978-2-9807774-3-1) * Goulimari‚ Pelagia (ed.) (2007) Postmodernism * Grebowicz‚ Margaret (ed.)‚ Gender After Lyotard. NY: Suny Press‚ 2007. (ISBN 978-0-7914-6956-9) * Greer‚ Robert C * Groothuis‚ Douglas. Truth Decay. Downers Grove‚ Illinois: InterVarsity Press‚ 2000. * Harvey‚ David (1989) The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural
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