From Enlightenment to Postmodernism

From Enlightenment to Postmodernism. <Tab/>The emergence of feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and postmodern philosophy served as catalyst for the transition from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism. The eighteenth century philosophical, political and scientific thought in search for freedom, equality and stability relied upon the belief in reason and rationality as its fundamental values. It depended on the binary structures so criticized and rethought by feminists and postmodern philosophers. In the postmodernist ideology …

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