Understanding Postmodernism, #3.

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This "project" is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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Writers and artists had to make such choices because they needed systematic and comprehensive alternatives to the dominant ideals of cultural modernism best represented by Enlightenment thinkers who emphasized a secular rationality promoting empiricism, material progress, and increasing democratization.

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Charles Altieri, "Modernism and Postmodernism," The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993), 792-796.

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