ABSTRACT
Postmodernism represents a fundamental challenge to contemporary science by rejecting the taken for granted notions of rationality, order, clarity, truth and realism and the idea of intellectual progress. Instead, postmodernism draws attention to disorder, contradictory explanations and ambiguity. While modern science is concerned with the appropriate methods and procedures for establishing the truth, postmodernism uses deconstruction to reveal the strategies that are used to represent truth claims. Postmodernism is thus concerned with the use of language – as such, language becomes the unit of analysis.
