The Emancipatory Potential of Postmodernism: A Contemporary Re-Examination

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dc.contributor.authorChen, David
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-13T20:04:45Z
dc.date.available2017-04-13T20:04:45Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017-04-13
dc.description.abstractOver the last decades, there has been a massive decline of the influence of Marxism and a soaring popularity of Foucault and postmodernism within the intellectual community of the Western postmodern society. Simultaneously, there has been an augmented interest in cultural and political matters and diminished concern on economic issues. In congruence, from the literature review, I found that people’s political and economic rights in reality have moved toward the same direction as they did in the theoretical world – that there is an expansion in their political rights and a contraction in their economic rights (or gains). This suggests a triadic interrelationship among trending popularity of Marxism and postmodernism, shifted concerns from economic issues to cultural and political matters, and the alteration of people’s actual economic and political rights. The prevalence of the postmodern agenda of human emancipation in contemporary society, which has shifted the attention from the economic realm such as wealth redistribution to the cultural and political realms such as identity and recognition, is highly contentious. On one aspect, it is liberating in terms of promoting people’s political rights, but on the other, it is restraining in respect of disregarding people’s economic rights (or gains). As a result, my thesis concludes that the emancipatory project of postmodernism is deficient and attempts to explore feasible alternatives to the postmodern theory and its notion of emancipation.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awarden_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7915
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectpostmodernityen_US
dc.subjectpostmodernismen_US
dc.subjectEnlightenmenten_US
dc.subjectKarl Marxen_US
dc.subjectMichel Foucaulten_US
dc.subjecthuman emancipationen_US
dc.subjectpolitical rightsen_US
dc.subjecteconomic rightsen_US
dc.titleThe Emancipatory Potential of Postmodernism: A Contemporary Re-Examinationen_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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