Existentialism vs Postmodernism - What's the difference?
existentialism | postmodernism |
(philosophy, not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
(philosophy, countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
* 1965 , Mikel Dufrenne, "Existentialism and Existentialisms," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol 26 no 1 (Sep), p. 51.
Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.
As nouns the difference between existentialism and postmodernism
is that existentialism is a twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices while postmodernism is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.existentialism
English
(wikipedia existentialism)Noun
(en noun)- The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.
- Sartre's existentialism''' is atheistic, but the '''existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.
- Instead of Existentialism', we should speak of ' Existentialisms .