Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia - Postmodernism
Previous: Modernism Postmodernism is any of a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernity: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernity - Postmodernity Versus Post-modernism
There are multiple positions on the differences between postmodernity and post-modernism. One position says that post-modernity is a cond...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernity: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernity - Descriptions Of Postmodernity
Postmodernity - Philosophy and Critical Theory. Within philosophy and critical theory the use of the term "post-modernity" tends to clu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - D20 Modern: Encyclopedia - D20 Modern
d20 Modern is a role-playing game designed by Bill Slavicsek, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, and Charles Ryan. It was published by Wizards of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Geocentrism: Encyclopedia - Modern Geocentrism
History of creationism Creation in Genesis Types of creationism: Young Earth creationism - Creation science Old Earth creationism Omphalo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Relationship Between Modernism And Postmodernism
The relationship between modernism and postmodernism, can best be examined through the works of several authors, some of whom argue for s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witches In Modern Culture: Encyclopedia - Witches In Modern Culture
Witches in modern culture Today, few people believe in witches that can curse enemies, change shapes, or fly. However, since the emergenc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Relationship Between Modernism And Postmodernism
The relationship between modernism and postmodernism, can best be examined through the works of several authors, some of whom argue for s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - The Development Of Postmodernism
Features of postmodern culture begin to arise in the 1920s with the emergence of the Dada movement, which featured collage and a focus on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - The Development Of Postmodernism
Features of postmodern culture begin to arise in the 1920s with the emergence of the Dada movement, which featured collage and a focus on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Postmodernism's Manifestations
Postmodernism - Postmodernism in language. Important to postmodernism's role in language is the focus on the implied meaning of words a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Postmodernism's Manifestations
Postmodernism - Postmodernism in language. Important to postmodernism's role in language is the focus on the implied meaning of words a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Postmodernism's Manifestations
Postmodernism - Postmodernism in language. Important to postmodernism's role in language is the focus on the implied meaning of words a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Postmodernism In Philosophy
Many figures in the 20th century philosophy of mathematics are identified as "postmodern" due to their rejection of mathematics as a stri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Postmodernism In Philosophy
Many figures in the 20th century philosophy of mathematics are identified as "postmodern" due to their rejection of mathematics as a stri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Postmodernism In Philosophy
Many figures in the 20th century philosophy of mathematics are identified as "postmodern" due to their rejection of mathematics as a stri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernity: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernity - Brief History Of Postmodernity
Postmodernity has been said to have gone through two relatively distinct phases: the first phase beginning in the 1950's and running thro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Postmodernism And Its Critics
The term post-modernism is often used pejoratively to describe tendencies perceived of as Relativist, Counter-enlightenment or antimodern...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Postmodernism And Its Critics
The term post-modernism is often used pejoratively to describe tendencies perceived of as Relativist, Counter-enlightenment or antimodern...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodern Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodern Music - Causes And Theories Of Post-modernity In Music
For some, post-modernity is degenerate modernity, the critic Theodor Adorno being a prominent example of the idea that trends of music af...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Deconstruction
Deconstruction is a term which is used to denote the application of post-modern ideas of criticism, or theory, to a "text" or "artifact"....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Deconstruction
Deconstruction is a term which is used to denote the application of post-modern ideas of criticism, or theory, to a "text" or "artifact"....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Deconstruction
Deconstruction is a term which is used to denote the application of post-modern ideas of criticism, or theory, to a "text" or "artifact"....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernity: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernity - Criticisms Of Post-modernity
Criticisms of the post-modern condition can broadly be put into four categories: criticisms of post-modernity from the perspective of tho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Uses Of The Term
The term derives from postmodernity, which postmodern theorist Jean-François Lyotard understood to represent the culmination of the proc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Uses Of The Term
The term derives from postmodernity, which postmodern theorist Jean-François Lyotard understood to represent the culmination of the proc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernism - Uses Of The Term
The term derives from postmodernity, which postmodern theorist Jean-François Lyotard understood to represent the culmination of the proc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodern Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodern Music - The Postmodern Musical Condition: The Condition Of Music In Postmodernity
As a musical condition, postmodern music is music situated after the modern age, during the present period, where music has become valued...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodern Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodern Music - The Postmodern Musical Style
Postmodern music - Modernist influences and postmodern philosophy. In the modern period, recording of music was seen as a way of transc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodernity: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodernity - Brief Introduction To The Uses Of The Term
The term postmodernity is used in a number of ways. Most generally, postmodernity is the state or condition of being postmodern (i.e., af...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodern Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodern Music - Composers Cited As Important To Postmodern Music
Classical/Jazz Luciano Berio John Cage Ornette Coleman John Adams Philip Glass Steve Reich George Rochberg Alfred Schnittke Ezequiel Vi�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodern Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodern Dance - The Influence Of Postmodern Dance
postmodern dance led to: contemporary dance dance improvisation contact improvisation dance for camera dance technology the concept of a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodern Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodern Dance - The Postmodern Choreographic Process
The postmodern choreographic process may reflect the following elements: post-structuralism / deconstructivism parody irony jouissance r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Postmodern Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Postmodern Philosophy - History Of Postmodern Philosophy
Postmodern philosophy - Early influences in postmodern philosophy. Postmodern philosophy originated primarily in France during the 1950...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Social Progress: Encyclopedia Ii - Social Progress - Postmodernism And Social Progress
In the postmodernist thought steadily gaining ground from the 1980s, the grandiose claims of the modenisers are steadily eroded, and the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Feng Shui: Encyclopedia Ii - Feng Shui - Postmodernism
The famous Bank of China Tower on Hong Kong Island, a blade-like design by I.M. Pei (not a feng shui adept), was supposedly a deliberate ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Dance - Legacy Of Modern Dance
The legacy on Modern dance can be seen in lineage of 20th century concert dance forms. Although often producing divergent dance forms man...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Dance - Legacy Of Modern Dance
The legacy on Modern dance can be seen in lineage of 20th century concert dance forms. Although often producing divergent dance forms man...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Modern Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Modern Literature - Modernism
History of modern literature - Modernist poetry. Modernist poetry is a mode of writing characterised by technical innovation in the mod...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Dance - History
Modern dance - Free dance. main article: Free dance 1891 - Loie Fuller (a burlesque skirt dancer) began experimenting with the effect ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Modern Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Modern Literature - Modern Literature 19th Century
The 19th century was perhaps the most literary of all centuries, because not only were the forms of novel, short story and magazine seria...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Numerology: Encyclopedia Ii - Numerology - Postmodern Critique
There is also a serious postmodern critique of Number and the actual cognitive, linguistic, and political meaning of numbers. John Zerzan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Numerology: Encyclopedia Ii - Numerology - Postmodern Critique
There is also a serious postmodern critique of Number and the actual cognitive, linguistic, and political meaning of numbers. John Zerzan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Virginia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Virginia - Postmodern State 1975-2006
The expansion of government programs in recent decades in the areas near Washington, has profoundly affected the economy of Northern Virg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Modern Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Modern Literature - Modern Asian Literature
Needs to be added See main article: Modern Asian Literature, Category:Chinese literature, Category:Indian literature, Category:Literature...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Modern Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Modern Literature - Modern Literature In The Americas
Needs to be added See main articles in: Argentine literature, Category:Brazilian literature, Literature of Canada, Category:Colombian lit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Short Story: Encyclopedia Ii - Short Story - Modern Short Stories
Modern short stories emerged as their own genre in the early 19th century. Early examples of short story collections include the Brothers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The End Of Evangelion: Encyclopedia Ii - The End Of Evangelion - Postmodernism In The Film
The movie contains some highly postmodern sequences, including a scene showing a young Shinji playing in the Geofront with film lights ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Left-wing Politics: Encyclopedia Ii - Left-wing Politics - The Left And Postmodernism
As Barbara Epstein notes, "Many people, inside and outside the world of postmodernism (and for that matter inside and outside the left), ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slavoj Žižek: Encyclopedia Ii - Slavoj Žižek - Postmodernism
One theme in particular that Žižek addresses is postmodernism, which confronts psychoanalysis with new questions. By virtue of the demi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Modern Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Modern Literature - Australasian Literature
Needs to be added See Australian literature, New Zealand literature ... See also:History of modern literature, History of modern litera...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Art: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Art - History
Modern art - Roots in the 19th century. Modern art began as a Western movement, particularly in painting and printmaking, and then expa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernity: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernity - Modern As Post-medieval
One common use of the term is to describe the condition of Western History since the mid-1400's, or roughly the European discovery of mov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Modern Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Modern Literature - African Literature
Needs to be added See main articles: African literature, Category:Nigerian literature, South African literature ... See also:History of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism - Modernism's Goals
Many modernists believed that by rejecting tradition they could discover radically new ways of making art. Arnold Schoenberg believed tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-imperialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-imperialism - Postmodernism And Anti-imperialism
Postmodernists generally challenge the notion that imperialism is primarily economic and place a greater stress on cultural and social ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism - Modernism's Reception And Controversy
The most controversial aspect of the modern movement was, and remains, its rejection of tradition, both in organization, and in the immed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints - Reacting And Adapting To The Postmodern World C. 1960 And Later
By the 1960s and 1970s, as a consequence of its massive, international growth in the post-World War II era, the Church was no longer prim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victory Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Victory Title - Modern Victory Titles
Later, the term would again be applied to titles awarded in commemoration of a major military victory, but now in the guise of a feudal a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern World: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern World - Beginning And Ending
The beginning of this period is marked by the end of the European Renaissance. Its exact definition depends on the specific usage — for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern World: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern World - Beginning And Ending
The beginning of this period is marked by the end of the European Renaissance. Its exact definition depends on the specific usage — for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Dances: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Dances - Album Cover Description
Shaggy haired and sinewy Jandek looks to our right in the right 1/4 of the frame. A featureless brick wall dominates the left 3/4. To the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Art: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Art - Art Movements And Artist Groups
(Chronological with representative artists listed.) Modern art - End of 19th century. Romanticism (the Romantic movement) - Francisco ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architectural History: Encyclopedia Ii - Architectural History - Modern Architecture And Beyond
The instrumentalisation of Architecture as paraded by "form follows function" after "wiping the slate clean". Arts and Crafts Movement A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism Music - History Of Modernism In Music
Modernism music - Late 19th century origins. As with many other arts, the consciousness of modernity appeared before music which is now...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism Music - Defining Musical Modernism
Musicologist Carl Dahlhaus restricted his definition of musical modernism to progressive music in the period 1890-1910: "The year 1890......   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism - Historical Outline
The Modernist Movement emerged in the mid-19th century in France and was rooted in the idea that "traditional" forms of art, literature, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism - Historical Outline
The Modernist Movement emerged in the mid-19th century in France and was rooted in the idea that "traditional" forms of art, literature, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architectural History: Encyclopedia Ii - Architectural History - Modern Architecture And Beyond
The instrumentalisation of Architecture as paraded by "form follows function" after "wiping the slate clean". Arts and Crafts Movement A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism Music - Examples Of Modernism In Music
See: List of modernistic pieces. Modernism music - Expansion and destruction of tonality. Modernist movements include expansion to comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Architecture - Modernism As Dominant Style
By the 1920s the most important figures in modern architecture had established their reputations. The big three are commonly recognized a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern World: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern World - Characteristics
The concept of the modern world as distinct from an ancient world of historical and outmoded artifacts rests on a sense that the modern w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Art History: Encyclopedia Ii - Western Art History - Modern Art
Out of the naturalist ethic of Realism grew a major artistic movement, Impressionism. The Impressionists pioneered the use of light in pa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism Music - Musical Modernism's Reception And Controversy
Many people have criticized musical modernism, including George Rochberg and Fred Lerdahl. Stanley Cavell (1976, p.187) describes the "bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern World: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern World - Characteristics
The concept of the modern world as distinct from an ancient world of historical and outmoded artifacts rests on a sense that the modern w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Architecture - Origins
Some historians see the evolution of modern architecture as a social matter, closely tied to the project of Modernity and hence to the En...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ontological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Ontological Argument - A Modern Description Of The Argument
Here's a short, and very general description of the ontological argument: 1) God is the greatest possible being and thus possesses all p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knyaz: Encyclopedia Ii - Knyaz - Russian Title In Modern Times
As Muscovy gained dominion over much of former Kievan Rus', Velikii Kniaz Ivan IV of Russia in 1547 was crowned as Tsar. Since the mid-18...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Architecture - Some Catchphrases Of Modern Architecture
In his 1941 essay "The mischievous analogy" (collected in Heavenly Mansions) the architectural historian Sir John Summerson identified se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Geocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Geocentrism - History Of Modern Geocentrism
The Ptolemaic model of the solar system held sway into the early modern age; from the late 16th century onward it was gradually replaced ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Geocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Geocentrism - History Of Modern Geocentrism
The Ptolemaic model of the solar system held sway into the early modern age; from the late 16th century onward it was gradually replaced ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dictator: Encyclopedia Ii - Dictator - Modern Use In Formal Titles
Dictator - Dictator plain. in Italy: prodittatori * in Peru: the 17 February 1824 - 28 January 1827 president, general Simón José...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism Music - Alternative Categorizations
Despite Albright's definitions he points out examples of his three traits of modernism long before 1894. Orlando Gibbons' The Cries of Lo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - American Literature - Modern Humorist Literature
From Irving and Hawthorne to the present day, the short story has been a favorite American form. One of its 20th-century masters was John...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Celts: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Celts - Modern Celticity
After World War II, "race" went out of fashion and "culture" took its place. Many of the same stereotypes and caricatures of Celticity on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Post-modern Literature
John Fowles and Julian Barnes are examples of Postmodern literature in English. References British Postmodern Fiction by Theo D'Haen, Ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Post-modern Literature
John Fowles and Julian Barnes are examples of Postmodern literature in English. References British Postmodern Fiction by Theo D'Haen, Han...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern World: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern World - Famous People
Much of the Modern world replaced the Biblically-oriented value system, the monarchical government system, and the feudal economic system...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern World: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern World - Famous People
Much of the Modern world replaced the Biblically-oriented value system, the monarchical government system, and the feudal economic system...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marshall Berman: Encyclopedia Ii - Marshall Berman - Modernity And Modernism
During the mid- to late-20th century philosophical discourse focused on issues of modernity and cultural attitudes and philosophies towar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Arnis: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Arnis - Modern Arnis Organizations
Modern Arnis is currently perpetuated by a number of organizations worldwide, with some of the largest being the DAV of Germany, the Inte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - City: Encyclopedia Ii - City - Modern Conceptions
City - Traditional approach. A universal linear approach to cities has been in place and accepted for a long time. As this approach fal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Greek - Demotic As Koine Standard Modern Greek
Koine Modern Greek (Κοινή Νεοελληνική) refers to the idiom of Demotic that was chosen as the official language of the Hel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Geocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Geocentrism - The Modern Scientific Point Of View
The consensus of scientists today is that there is no center or otherwise special position in the universe, from the standpoint of the l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Early Modern France: Encyclopedia Ii - Early Modern France - History Of Early Modern France
The Early Modern period in French history spans the following reigns: Valois Dynasty Louis XI Charles VIII Louis XII Francis I Henry II...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Celts: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Celts - Criticism Of Modern Celticism
However, there have been critics of the modern valorization of Celticity. Some have pointed out that the idea of these populations being ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Triumvirate: Encyclopedia Ii - Triumvirate - Modern Triumvirates
The title was revived a few times for (short-lived) three-headed political 'magistratures' in post-feudal times. Ironically, when the Fre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Modern Art: Encyclopedia Ii - The Modern Art - Discography
The Modern Art - Albums. Underwater Kites (Color Records, October 1982) Oriental Towers (Color Records, 31 July 1983) Dimension of Noi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Postmodernism: A Christian Theological Dictionary On Postmodernism
A Christian theological definition of Postmodernism according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:   &q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Modern Synthesis: Oceanography Dictionary - Modern Synthesis
  Definition and meaning of Modern Synthesis:   Modern Synthesis - the synthesis of natural selection and mendelian inhe...   » Read the article