Postmodernism - the mainstream of contemporary philosophy, art and science. The first postmodernism is repelled, of course, from modernism (postmodernism and means - 'everything after modernism'). Immediate P. predecessors are poststructuralism and deconstruction as a philosophical method. The last two concepts are very close major facilities AP - post-structuralism and deconstruction 'brought the history of philosophy, and philosophy the poetics'. The main object AP - The text to be capitalized. One of the main leaders of the PA, Jacques Derrida (who, however, does not recognize the term PP), called Mr.

text. The difference between the AP and post-structuralism is, primarily, in that, if post-structuralism in its original form was limited to the sphere of philosophical and literary interests (secretly claiming to be more), then AP already in the 1980s. become eligible for a general theoretical expression superstructure of modern art, philosophy, science, politics, economics, fashion. A second difference from its predecessors was the VP on the severity of rejection and universal pluralism. In terms of philosophy, for example, PA is ready to cooperate and with analytical philosophy and phenomenology, and even with pragmatism.

We have primarily in mind the phenomenon of Richard Rorty, one of the most modern philosophers of the 1980s., Whose ideology combined analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and P. Here, apparently, the fact that PA was the conductor of the new post-industrial society, replacing, or at least give way to the West traditional bourgeois industrial society. In this new society, most information becomes a valuable commodity, and the old economic and political values - power, money, exchange, production - were subjected to deconstruction. In the general confusion prevails P. and derision over all, one of the it became the main principles of 'cultural oposredovavnost', or, in a nutshell, the quote. 'We live in an era when all the words are spoken' - somehow dropped SS Averintsev, so every word, even every letter in the post-modern culture - is a quote.