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Phenomenology vs Postmodernism - What's the difference?

phenomenology | postmodernism |

As nouns the difference between phenomenology and postmodernism

is that phenomenology is a philosophy based on the intuitive experience of phenomena, and on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as consciously perceived by conscious beings while postmodernism is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.

phenomenology

English

(wikipedia phenomenology)

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

  • (philosophy) A philosophy based on the intuitive experience of phenomena, and on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as consciously perceived by conscious beings.
  • (philosophy) A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by .

    • Derived terms

    * heterophenomenology * phenomenological * phenomenologically * phenomenological reduction * phenomenologist * postphenomenology * postphenomenological English words suffixed with -ology

    postmodernism

    English

    (wikipedia postmodernism)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.