What is Postmodernism? (Philosophical Definition)

A brief outlining of the overarching themes that cut across the various positions and movements that have been called postmodernism in art, politics, and philosophy. Future videos in this series cover the specifics of postmodernism for architecture, politics, science and more!

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Information for this video gathered from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Collier-MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, and more! (#Postmodernism #Philosophy)

[Nebuch]

I'd came for Set theory and ontology. but this series dude, is real deal for me.

[logos]

Postmodernism = relativism
Anti-objectivism

Why the shilling disclaimer that not all postmodernists are the same… they’re all relativists
No other philosophical position is shilled for to protect them from being identified and disproved

[vanakneon]

So glad your channel exists.You have covered with short (and sometimes long) videos A LOT of topics that are super interesting and made it understandable for non-experts

[eleftheriosepikuridis]

Thank you so much for making this. You sober presentation of philosophical concepts is very needed in this discourse around postmodernism which is dominated by pop intellectuals, straw men, prejudice, and misconceptions

[erik]

sounds like postmodernism comes down to "everything is a model, and no model is universally right". while i agree that everything is a model, i prefer the empirical spin on this: all models are wrong, but some are useful (a famous saying among those working in modelling).

[nina-gdbm]

you should do a vid on "metamodernism"

[zmbiebanana]

The modernist in me says that this will give me true objective facts on post modernism but the post modernist in me says that this series will be narrative of current cultural institutions

[hjge]

I never quite got the whole "be skeptical of metanarratives" point. It all seems very self defeating to me, because always being skeptical of metanarratives, seems like a metanarrative in and of itself to me. So it's self defeating and just boils down to: be skeptical of whatever you want and believe whatever you want.

[bobvanluijt]

You’ve done a superb job (as always) with this introduction. On a side note, I love how you make a point about “certain pop philosophers, ” and without mentioning him, everybody knows who you mean 😂

[bulldogmadhav]

I now understand how little I knew and know about postmodernism







Post modernism is a spook

[TheologyUnleashed]

3:00 I didn't know postmodernism claimed to know anything about the way the world is. Isn't it a kind of absurd relativism?

[Dayglodaydreams]

He's clearly a strong understander of art. Why doesn't he break down Goodman's philosophy of art: Cognitive, constructivist, nominal metaphysics through artistic representation.

[patientlywatching]

Mix marxism+critical theory in w/ Postmodern ideology you get smth more dangerous and horrific than politics alone ever were. This form is like a negative K-hole (nothing there, meaningless, pointless n painful).

[hus]

Thank you, this series has cleared a lot of the misconceptions that I read about postmodernism in various places. I’ve been following you for some time now and I can tell you that you are a high intelligent and very knowledgeable guy. Keep it up 👍

[NOFX]

Being the neglectfully educated person that I am, but still having retained some form of ability to think, iv found myself wading around the battlefields of the culture war online. I stumbled over the concept of Chesterton's fence. You do a great video on this, thankyou, new subscriber.
While tangling myself in hypocrisy and paradoxes inside my own head, i managed to pen a less than witty anecdote. It is an argument between a schizophrenic and... a schizophrenic... about the burden of proof.
Lo and behold, a few days later i stumble over the conceptual fence, then a few days later your painting of the fence. Within which burden of proof arguments are within your brush strokes.
Have I ever had an original thought I wonder, there is a truth to there being nothing new.

[polemizator]

5:14 It sounds like ethical claim actually.
12:20 Pluralism is CENTRAL

[proxyfeint]

In the themes part, if you were to create a Venn diagram with one on each side but you personally like things from both sides and thus you make up the intersection, what sort of ideas/views are there at the intersection? If you can do this that is. I have a weak philosophy background so I wouldn't know if this sort of thing is possible or not but I'm curious nonetheless :)

[blackkakari]

So it's not about how the world should be, but rather about how it is. How is that not still just as bad? You might as well say "I'm not saying that Hitler should have won WWII, I'm just saying that the world would be a better place if he did." That's just as evil as saying "I think Hitler was right." That absolutely *IS* the problem for me because it absolutely *IS* the fault of Post Modernism.

[mediamass]

3:50 Postmodernism is about overanalysing, readings are used to shove motive in to interpretations, the interpretations become definitions, they become used to fuel agendas and political narratives.

Random person watches Malcolm in the Middle, the make an O sign with your fingers thing is funny, they make a joke about it and idiots take that joke seriousely, now because idiots fell for a joke the O sign means racism or something and frog immagery equals neo nazi.
There was a story covered by "Just Some Guy" on youtube about how I think it was Mark Wade, calling up a publisher he'd never worked with to call a guy a racist because, because reasons and entimidated them in to dropping the guy, only problem is not only was Cyber frog not racist the guy had an interracial family.
Postmodernism is analisys for the sake of analisys but with a motivated world of readers it becomes a weapon for the sake of agendas.
Baudriard is about understanding Hyperreality, Postmodernism is a function of Hyperreality, you shouldnt dismiss rejections of Postmodernism, not today, not when everything is becoming a symulacrum constructed by stupid people given power by political nepetism.

[JohanAdrian]

I got interested on this channel after I stumble upon your series on free will. Now I'm hooked an waiting for this awesome new series.