Modernism
Progress.
Optimism.
Rationality.
The search for absolute knowledge in science, technology,
society and politics.
The idea of gaining knowledge of the true self was the only
foundation for all other knowledge.
Postmodernism
State of affairs in society
Set of ideas which try to define and explain these states of
affairs
Artistic style or approach to making things
Used in many different contexts to cover many different
aspects of all the above
Exhaustion
Pessimism
Irrationality
Disillusionment with the idea of absolute knowledge
Specific over universal abstract
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