postmodernism

As nouns the difference between postmodernism and postpositivism

is that postmodernism is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc, that reacts against an earlier modernist movement while postpositivism is (philosophy) a metatheoretical stance that critiques and amends positivism while positivists believe that the researcher and the researched person are independent of each other, postpositivists accept that theories, background, knowledge and values of the researcher can influence what is observed they believe that human knowledge is based not on unchallengeable, rock-solid foundations, but rather upon human conjectures.

As a noun postmodernism

is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc, that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

As nouns the difference between postmodernism and humanism

is that postmodernism is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement while humanism is the study of the humanities or the liberal arts; literary (especially classical) scholarship.

As nouns the difference between sophism and postmodernism

is that sophism is a method of teaching using the techniques of philosophy and rhetoric while postmodernism is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc, that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.

As nouns the difference between postmodernism and realism

is that postmodernism is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

As nouns the difference between formalism and postmodernism

is that formalism is strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc while postmodernism is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc, that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.

As nouns the difference between neomodernism and postmodernism

is that neomodernism is neomodern attitudes and practices generally while postmodernism is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc, that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.

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.

As nouns the difference between postmodernism and constructivism

is that postmodernism is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement while constructivism is a Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.

As nouns the difference between postmodernism and marxism

is that postmodernism is any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement while Marxism is the socialist philosophy and political program founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; scientific socialism.