ABSTRACT
Postmodernism as an influential cultural phenomenon has, in recent decades, generated deep divisions in Western academia. For a good number of critics, postmodernism is a derogatory term that designates a relativist cultural trend leading to moral-intellectual confusion and an “anything goes” mind-set (Bloom 1987). This trend has often been perceived as dangerously playing in the hands of anti-democrats and neoconservatives (Habermas 1990).
