What is Postmodernism? Understanding the Shift from Modernism
1. What is Postmodernism?
Before the concept Postmodernism there was another so-called the Modernism.
It came into existence to the modern period combined with industrialisation, market-oriented capitalist economies, new social classes, democracy, and
Enlightenment valuest- "reason and progress".
This controversial philosophy, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, it is possible that "the establishment of objective facts and universal
values." (Heywood, 2012)
Merriam-Webster: "of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to Modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional
materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self- reference and absurdity" (as in literature).