postmodern condition

collocation in English

meaningsofpostmodernandcondition

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postmodern
adjective
uk
/ˌpəʊstˈmɒd.ən/
us
/ˌpoʊstˈmɑː.dɚn/
relating ...
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condition
noun
uk
/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
us
/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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(Definition ofpostmodernandconditionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What is all this hurly-burly about thepostmoderncondition?
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Such interpretations may inform a pedagogy of music education in thepostmoderncondition.
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Music education in thepostmodernconditionmay therefore embrace an aesthetic project that allows for the 'play of difference'.
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So history is becoming more literary and literature is getting more historicized as a result of thepostmoderncondition.
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This boundary breakdown, one of the material sources of what was called thepostmoderncondition, had made scholars sensitive to cultural variation in boundary construction.
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It is evolutionary because it subscribes to an analysis that posits a transformation from a modern to apostmoderncondition.
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As may be argued, in thepostmodernconditionthe scientific model is predicated on searching for the results only within the realm of that which is already thinkable.
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Stoppard tries to create dramatic enactments full of subtle communication of moral values, yet with the unwilling acceptance of the dominantpostmodernconditionwith its indeterminacy and immanence.
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B ut thepostmodernconditionof fragmentation has not been kind to archaeology in that its final line of defence, exclusive interpreter of the past, has now been overthrown.
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Lyotard denotes these changing circumstances aspostmodernconditionor postmodern society.
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He further argued that in ourpostmoderncondition, these metanarratives no longer work to legitimize truth-claims.
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These philosophers, he clainms, teach us how to think or philosophize in thepostmoderncondition, in an age when the grand rcits or metanarratives have lost their legitimating power.
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But even if science could not exist under the anarchy of postmodernism, might there be some elements of science that would become more robust under some postmodern conditions?
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