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That doesn\\\'t excuse the fact that postmodernism is listed on this page as espousing that ScienceIsWrong.
Subjectivity being what it is, postmodernism is widely interpreted to mean different things for different people/institutions/settings.
You can split postmodernism into groups of \\\"pop postmodernism\\\" and \\\"philosophical/proper/real postmodernism\\\" all you want, but postmodernism in and of itself is the underlying, and often unconscious, reasoning behind it.
In that sense, postmodernism does \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' say ScienceIsWrong. It is documented as being a result of \\\'disillusionment\\\' with science being the end-all-be-all (among other things). Science isn\\\'t wrong, and it\\\'s even pretty cool, but it doesn\\\'t define everything in life--there is indeed subjectivity in this world. That means control over life is impossible, so science has limits. There\\\'s a respect for science in that attitude, which is counter to this trope.
In short, throughout the 20th century the general public, including artists and scientists, all came to the above conclusion in some form or another, consciously due to observation or unconsciously due to the influence of pop artists and media going going in that direction, and as a result postmodernism cropped up in different forms in different settings (pop vs. philosophical postmodernism, for instance).
That means we can\\\'t just have \\\"postmodernism\\\" listed on this page, because that\\\'s not true on a fundamental (and the most important) level.
Subjectivity being what it is, postmodernism is widely interpreted to mean different things for different people/institutions/settings.
You can split postmodernism into groups of \\\"pop postmodernism\\\" and \\\"philosophical/proper/real postmodernism\\\" all you want, but postmodernism in and of itself is the underlying, and often unconscious, reasoning behind it.
In that sense, postmodernism does \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' say ScienceIsWrong. It is documented as being a result of \\\'disillusionment\\\' with science being the end-all-be-all (among other things). Science isn\\\'t wrong, and it\\\'s even pretty cool, but it doesn\\\'t define everything in life--there is indeed subjectivity in this world. That means control over life is impossible, so science has limits. There\\\'s a respect for science in that attitude, which is counter to this trope.
In short, throughout the 20th century the general public, including artists and scientists, all came to the above conclusion in some form or another, consciously due to observation or unconsciously due to the influence of pop artists and media going going in that direction, and as a result postmodernism cropped up in different forms in different settings (pop vs. philosophical postmodernism, for instance).
That means we can\\\'t just have \\\"postmodernism\\\" listed on this page, because that\\\'s not true on a fundamental (and the most important) level.
