Moon Palace - post-modern narrative techniques

             First of all it is necessary to partially understand the concept of post-modernity in order to apply post-modern concepts to Moon Palace. So the first question to be answered is, what is post-modernism
             Post-modernity is an expression to describe our contempory time, much like the word Classic describes an epoch. However the post-modern concept is very divers as there is not even a common definition of post-modernism. I'll point out the most important definitions.
             1. Post-Modernism is a further development from the age of modernity
             2. Post-Modernism breaks with modernism
             3. Post-Modernism comes before modernity
             4. (Post-Modernism is only a mental construct form crazed French philosophers)
             5. (Post-Modernism has never existed)
             The three common definitions share many characteristics of post-modernity. Most important the post-modernity rejects the existence of one objective reality or truth. This theorem is called constructivism and forms the basis for the post-modern concept.
             "Meaning is imposed on the world by us, rather than existing in the world independently of us. There are many ways to structure the world, and those are meanings or perceptions for any event or concept."
             Constructivists argue that even the simplest perception like seeing and hearing does not create an image of one real existing world, but construct of one's mind only. Radical constructivism even rejects the existing of a reality without someone to perceive it, there the universe would cease to exist with the last being dying, moderate constructivists are of the opinion that an outer world exists but can never be perceived in an absolute objective way. This point of view has had great impact on the development of post-modernism. Therefore the post-modernists tend to reject all great constructs referred to as grand narratives, those grand narratives are for example history, science, education, ideology and even language. So the ...

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