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Originally Posted by elphenor
postmodernism isn't an argument or a central tenant anymore than Modernism or Romanticism or whatever
it's more akin to a grouping together of a perspective and a variety of artists, writers, architects philosophers etc.
in the case of Foucault, he does not question the existence of an objective reality
what he questions in his writings is the narrative form of evaluating history from which we derive what we often think to be objective truth
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Maybe I was wrong about it then. I thought it went beyond history and applied to science as well.