Postmodernism Test Guide 2023 Solved
Premodern umpire
"There's balls and there's strikes, and I call em as they are"
Modern umpire
"There's balls and there's strikes, and I call em as I see em"
Postmodern umpire
"Balls and strikes? They ain't nothing til I call em"
What is the paradigm shift?
- There has been a movement from a premodern concern for society based on
revelation from a just God to a modern attempt to use universal reason as the guide to
justice to a postmodern despair of any universal standard for justice
- There is no universal truth
What us modernism?
- The European Enlightenment from the 17th to 19th centuries had constructed a
western worldview based on the results of scientific inquiry
- Postmodernism rejected the metaphysical realism of modernism and deconstructed
that world
Modernism dethroned God and placed _______ and ________ in the place of
__________
reason, scientific discovery, revelation
Modernism elevated the __________ and defined the ______________
belief in progress, autonomous individual
How can language be used?
It can be used to describe reality, words have meaning. They express rational thought
and describe objective reality
What does communication do?
It reflects rather than constructs what is really real
What kind of mood is postmodernism?
Cultural mood within Western civilization
What is cultural relativism?
Everything is relative not to the individual necessarily but to the individual's group or
community
What is deconstruction?
Deconstruction is a form of relativism applied specifically to literature.
To construct a text to set aside what the author meant and to create the text's meaning.
Deconstruction is applied to ALL of culture
What does postmodernism reject?
Rejects objective reason, believing that what is rational for one community may not be
rational for another community
Postmodernists elevate ________ over _________
rhetoric, reason
As Christians we want to defend what? (4)
1. Metaphysical realism, the existence of objective reality
2. the objectivity of reason to understand reality
, 3. use of language as a tool to help us describe reality
4. the existence of absolute truth and truth as correspondence to reality
1 Chronicles 12:32 tells us that from the tribe of Issachar there were those
who______________
understood the times and what to do
True or False: The apostle Paul studied the culture and understood the times
True
True or False: Postmodernity is both a philosophy and a cultural mood of our
times
True
True or False: Postmodernism has had no influence whatsoever over Christianity
False, Christianity has been relativized, marginalized and trivialized
Postmodernism says there is.....
no real identity only image
From an historical perspective, what are the three periods?
Premodern - to 1600 AD - Revelation is the foundation
Modern- 1600 to 1960 AD- Science comes to forefront
Postmodern- 1960 to?- Experience is most important
True or False: The Age of Enlightenment birthed the pre modern age
False, Modern Age
True or False: Modernism is a reaction and rejection of the Enlightenment Project
False, Postmodernism
John Stonestreet of the Wexner center of performing arts, the first postmodern
building. On which university campus is this building located?
The Ohio State
The "Godfather" of the postmodernists, who proclaimed in the Parable of the
Madman that "God is dead, and we have killed him"
Frederich Nietzsche Wrote Beyond Good and Evil
Who is Richard Rorty?
American postmodernist philosopher thinks that truth is social construct and we need to
abandon objective truth and engage in the "hermeneutic conversation"
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Who is Jacques Derrida?
French deconstructionist who dismantled text, asserting that words do not have any
fixed meaning, there is no real meaning in any text
Of Grammatology
Who is Michel Foucault?
As a homosexual, this french critic believed that language is violence and has been
used to oppress others and in particular language has been used to oppress sexuality
Madness and Civilization
Postmodernists reject any overarching story. It has been said that they have an
"incredulity toward all __________________"
Metanarratives
True or False: Postmodernists are pragmatists and cultural relativists
True
Premodern umpire
"There's balls and there's strikes, and I call em as they are"
Modern umpire
"There's balls and there's strikes, and I call em as I see em"
Postmodern umpire
"Balls and strikes? They ain't nothing til I call em"
What is the paradigm shift?
- There has been a movement from a premodern concern for society based on
revelation from a just God to a modern attempt to use universal reason as the guide to
justice to a postmodern despair of any universal standard for justice
- There is no universal truth
What us modernism?
- The European Enlightenment from the 17th to 19th centuries had constructed a
western worldview based on the results of scientific inquiry
- Postmodernism rejected the metaphysical realism of modernism and deconstructed
that world
Modernism dethroned God and placed _______ and ________ in the place of
__________
reason, scientific discovery, revelation
Modernism elevated the __________ and defined the ______________
belief in progress, autonomous individual
How can language be used?
It can be used to describe reality, words have meaning. They express rational thought
and describe objective reality
What does communication do?
It reflects rather than constructs what is really real
What kind of mood is postmodernism?
Cultural mood within Western civilization
What is cultural relativism?
Everything is relative not to the individual necessarily but to the individual's group or
community
What is deconstruction?
Deconstruction is a form of relativism applied specifically to literature.
To construct a text to set aside what the author meant and to create the text's meaning.
Deconstruction is applied to ALL of culture
What does postmodernism reject?
Rejects objective reason, believing that what is rational for one community may not be
rational for another community
Postmodernists elevate ________ over _________
rhetoric, reason
As Christians we want to defend what? (4)
1. Metaphysical realism, the existence of objective reality
2. the objectivity of reason to understand reality
, 3. use of language as a tool to help us describe reality
4. the existence of absolute truth and truth as correspondence to reality
1 Chronicles 12:32 tells us that from the tribe of Issachar there were those
who______________
understood the times and what to do
True or False: The apostle Paul studied the culture and understood the times
True
True or False: Postmodernity is both a philosophy and a cultural mood of our
times
True
True or False: Postmodernism has had no influence whatsoever over Christianity
False, Christianity has been relativized, marginalized and trivialized
Postmodernism says there is.....
no real identity only image
From an historical perspective, what are the three periods?
Premodern - to 1600 AD - Revelation is the foundation
Modern- 1600 to 1960 AD- Science comes to forefront
Postmodern- 1960 to?- Experience is most important
True or False: The Age of Enlightenment birthed the pre modern age
False, Modern Age
True or False: Modernism is a reaction and rejection of the Enlightenment Project
False, Postmodernism
John Stonestreet of the Wexner center of performing arts, the first postmodern
building. On which university campus is this building located?
The Ohio State
The "Godfather" of the postmodernists, who proclaimed in the Parable of the
Madman that "God is dead, and we have killed him"
Frederich Nietzsche Wrote Beyond Good and Evil
Who is Richard Rorty?
American postmodernist philosopher thinks that truth is social construct and we need to
abandon objective truth and engage in the "hermeneutic conversation"
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Who is Jacques Derrida?
French deconstructionist who dismantled text, asserting that words do not have any
fixed meaning, there is no real meaning in any text
Of Grammatology
Who is Michel Foucault?
As a homosexual, this french critic believed that language is violence and has been
used to oppress others and in particular language has been used to oppress sexuality
Madness and Civilization
Postmodernists reject any overarching story. It has been said that they have an
"incredulity toward all __________________"
Metanarratives
True or False: Postmodernists are pragmatists and cultural relativists
True
