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Likewise Buddhism, Postmodernism also embraces rationality but it is well known fact that the conception of rationality can change according to time and circumstances and it is very difficult to decide what must be rational in all times and in all circumstances. Postmodernism conception of rationality may not be more advance than that of Buddhism.
Postmodernism is a contemporary intellectual movement that originated in the West. It is affecting all our spectrum of sociocultural land even political milieu of present era. In philosophy. The term is used to refer to the post-structuralistic philosophy of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michael Foucault, Georges Battaile, Jean Francios Lyotard and a host of contemporary thinkers.
These thinkers argue for creation of new meaning and values of life. According to these authors, it is not culture that creates man; rather it is man who creates culture. For instance, Jesus Chriest, Moh. Pagamber Sahab, Mausa etc. Postmodern authors intent to deconstruct the symbolic world of man in view of self-liberation and free self-formation. They also review the basic premises of human self-formation in our cultures such as rational thought, universal moral behavior, sexual differentiation, universal socio-political and cultural values and regulatory principles of life. Whatever anxiety is here has learned how to laugh and how we can live our freedom and creativity in its fullness. It is of Derrida's Deconstruction theory.?
Generally society rejects the insane, the mad, the poor and the wretched, the homosexual, the feminine and the castoffs. Postmodernists will embrace these sections of the society and focus their attention on these marginalized strata of society. This is called decentralization theory of postmodernism. Most of postmodernist authors focus freedom and spontaneity. The era of the triumphant industrialism, which reconstructed life for most of the western world is over and a new global era dawns where the west is forced to
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