ABSTRACT
Postmodernism did not originate as an academic epistemological theory produced by scholars in philosophy. Instead, it emerged as a broad stylistic or aesthetic movement, beginning in architecture and then migrating to other arts. Later, theoretical writings in the humanities and eventually the social sciences sought to explicate and justify that style. Postmodernism’s conceptions of knowledge and reality are most easily explained by contrasting them with the conceptions associated with modernity.
