ABSTRACT
Philosophy is a key 'gremlin’ in the postmodernist camp specifically in its guise as legitimator and final arbiter of 'truth’. Marysia Zalewski presenting postmodernism: Postmodernists share one common enemy – the Enlightenment – because of its philosophical assumptions about, for example, the self, knowledge, reality, language and truth. The postmodernist does not believe that reality has objectively determinate properties, and believes that reality is multiply configurable. In contrast with a postmodern approach, reference to the measure of truth and logic is classically a way of selecting and controlling alternative beliefs, and inconsistency is one of its main targets. The concept of toleration is inherently nothing other than an expression of indeterminacy. To admit the existence of social reality, therefore, is to admit the indeterminacy of social reality, to tolerate the existence of other people and therefore to tolerate conflicting stories as all story-true.
