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affirmative postmodernism

affirmative postmodernism

a perspective in postmodernism holding that social, cultural, and political progress is possible within a postmodern framework of assumptions. It is associated most closely with French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998). Compare skeptical postmodernism.

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