Talk:Postmodern philosophy

message: This page has been linked to on r/badphilosophy on reddit. Particularly people seemed annoyed at the characteristic claims section. Given this and the current surge in discussion about postmodernism (largely prompted by people who know very little about postmodernism,) it seems that the page is due for a major update. Lerlay (talk) 01:31, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  2019 Overhaul 

message: Can we please pay attention to what actual philosophers have written on this topic, instead of just looking at the Britannica and Merriam definitions. 
Here are good sources https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMbnrD5stPo User:Aesthesia9   —Preceding undated comment added 22:12, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Random smalltalk

message: Terrible first paragraph, all of which is cites only an encyclopedia entry. I don't know what common practices are for references for wikipedia, but I don't think referring to another encyclopedia is good practice personally. Furthermore whoever wrote this section obviously has a very strenuous grasp on postmodernism.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eqqsalab (talk • contribs) 23:15, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characteristic Claims section 

message: This section is really difficult to follow and the history of it isn't really explained. Currently it would be better titled 'Influences' and even then it would need expanding. There needs to be at least a discussion of Derrida's deconstruction, Modernism, Structuralism, and Post-Structuralism. All of these are the more specific history of postmodern philosophy rather than simply listing the philosophers who led to it. Lerlay (talk) 21:45, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: Should the "Characteristic claims" section contain a mention of political similarities with the modern identity politics?
Previous discussion: Talk:Postmodern philosophy#Identity politics, meatpuppeting --Pudeo (talk) 12:48, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC about relation to identity politics 

message: *Yes Per the Encyclopædia Britannica source, by their senior philosophy editor Brian Duignan, which states that:  Although defining postmodernism is notoriously difficult and it may be a controversial issue, I don't think it's in any way undue to mention this connection briefly in the section. It's not even the lede. --Pudeo (talk) 12:51, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Poll

message: Surprisingly there doesn't appear to be any page on Wikipedia specific to modernist philosophy with most work between the end of Kant's career and the beginning of Lacan's being divided into specific modernist schools such as Existentialism, Dialectical materialism, Structuralism etc.
Modernism is primarily concerned with the artistic movements of modernism rather than the associated philosophical ones, notwithstanding the extent to which they informed each other. That said, Modernism#Origins does make explicit reference to early modernist philosophers, which provides a decent redirect target for now. And then we might want to start thinking about developing a Modernism (philosophy) page. Simonm223 (talk) 13:53, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modernist Philosophy 

message: I recently found out that Postmodernism has been retooled to an article on postmodern philosophy rather than postmodern art. I think a merge with Postmodernism or a redirect to there is in order but I'm curious what others think. Simonm223 (talk) 12:46, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with . The hatnote at Postmodernism reads, "This page is about the movement" (and doesn't even mention this page). While the opening sentence of this page reads, "Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical movement". I can't tell much difference in scope. They should either be merged or differentiated somehow. Larataguera (talk) 13:22, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope change in Postmodernism 

message: This section is really vague without citations.  This would be much better if it referenced actual prominent critics of postmodern philosophy who have attempted to come up with something that moves beyond it, like those of Strauss, Jameson, Chomsky, or Habermas.  Could even reference some of the debates between its proponents and critics, such as the one between Chomsky and Foucault or Habermas and Derrida. 
There does seem to be a wiki on this but it's more general than just philosophy and kind of a mess of punditry mixed with more serious criticism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_postmodernism  
24.20.11.200 (talk) 10:37, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism Section 

message: I just made a fairly major reformatting of the article in order to make it appear more like other articles on philosophical movements, like German idealism. Not much of the actual text was changed, so there is still a lot of reworking this article needs. A lot of it needs to be more fleshed out, but I don't really have the time nor the expertise in Postmodernism to do so. Ryan Gosling0 (talk) 07:28, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  3/18/23 Edit