Unit 15:: Postmodernism and the End of History
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Abstract

The term modernism, or modernity, is often used today (somewhat disparagingly) to refer to a stage in human history when the optimistic belief in reason, objective morality, and scientific progress reigned supreme, while its historical successor in the West, the postmodern period, is generally characterized by thoroughly skeptical and relativistic attitudes toward all aspects of traditional human experience.

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