Postmodernism Quotes

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So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because th

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

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In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting

In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not to appear very sympathetic, but sufficiently weak to be a more-or-less accessible target (since the concentration of power and money are beyond reach). Science fulfills these conditions, and this partly explains the attacks against it.

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Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure

Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate ?

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The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Christopher Hitchens

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I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about

I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in , and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated?

Christopher Hitchens

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