What do you understand by the term postmodernism in a political context?



Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement'. While "modern" itself refers to something "related to the present", the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives. It is used in critical theory to refer to a point of departure for works of literature, drama, architecture, cinema and design, as well as in marketing and business and the interpretation of history, law and culture in the late 20th century.





Postmodernism is an aesthetic, literary, political or social philosophy, which was the basis of the attempt to describe a condition, or a state of being, or something concerned with changes to institutions and conditions.





Michel Foucault rejected the label of postmodernism explicitly in interviews but is seen by many to advocate a form of critique that is "postmodern" in that it breaks with the Utopian and transcendental nature of "modern" critique by calling universal norms of the Enlightenment into question.What counts as "postmodern" is a stake in political struggles where the method of critique is at issue. The recurring themes of these debates are between essential ism and anti-foundational ism, universalism and relativism, where enlightenment thinking is seen to represent the former and postmodernism the latter.





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