ABSTRACT
The term postmodernism had already been used in art and certainly there were postmodernist ideas in philosophy before it became a formal term.1 However, “the term ‘postmodernism’ first
entered the philosophical lexicon in 1979, with the publication of The Postmodern Condition by JeanFrançois Lyotard.”2 Postmodernism is so-named in reaction to the period of modernism that began with Kant and extends through the early 20th century. Postmodernism is “deeply suspicious of things like essences, absolutes, timeless truths, and universals.”3 “In philosophy, in the arts, in science, in political theory and in sociology, postmodernism challenges the entire culture of realism, representation, humanism and empiricism.”4
