The Idea of the Postmodern

Bertens, Hans

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“…Cage stands as an enigmatic figure in the modernist-postmodernist musical landscape; consensus holds him as a crucial catalyst between modern and postmodern music, though not all agree as to where he stands on the continuum. See (Bertens 1994;Hamm 1997). 10 Kramer appears to take a polar opposite stance on nostalgia's relationship to the postmodern from that of Holloway:…”

Section: Situating Postmodernismmentioning

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Liminality, Postmodernity and Passion: Towards a Theoretical Framework for the study of 21st Century Choral Passion Settings

Budziak

2017

Religions

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After more than a century of neglect of the form, over thirty major concert works with "Passion" within the title have emerged into the choral landscape during the past 50 years. These settings use diverse libretti, drawing from sources both sacred and secular; some of the composers of these works profess Christianity, some adhere to other religious traditions, and some do not profess any particular faith at all. Their only common threads seem to be their self-identification with the title of "Passion", and their depiction of a story in which a particular individual undergoes suffering and death. The purpose of this article is not to analyze specific Passion settings but rather to explore the structural form and content of the Passion genre as a whole, and begin to develop an interdisciplinary framework for future analysis of this body of music, using the tools offered by the field of liminal studies. Additionally, this essay will explore how the concept of Postmodernism, both as it manifests both in Western culture and through that culture's artistic and musical expression, might give some insight into the Passion form's resurgence into modern musical thought.

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Section: Situating Postmodernismmentioning

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Liminality, Postmodernity and Passion: Towards a Theoretical Framework for the study of 21st Century Choral Passion Settings

Budziak

2017

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“…Is it possible that human language could have lost its referential power? Bertens (1995) defines postmodernism by acknowledging the "death of the author" (p. 7). Would that also imply the death of any possible referent that we could use to sequence our existence on a historic timeline?…”

Section: International Journal Of Educationmentioning

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The Postmodern Curriculum in a Modern Classroom

Boboc

2012

IJE

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This article is intended to formulate several points of interest in the study of various forms postmodern curricula take in our contemporary classrooms. A critical look at the state of the latter poses the question of accommodating the needs of an increasingly diverse student population. The answer lies in curriculum negotiations (Hyun, 2006) representing sustainable adaptability. However, in an era of accountability that prescribes the structure and sequence of curriculum, our schools (perceived as a social system) lag behind. Therefore, the connection our students develop among truth, knowledge, value, and their own petits ré cits -personal texts that weave the web of their public lives in and outside of schoolsrepresents the focus of future research into effective design, implementation, and evaluation of inclusive and student-centered curricula.

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“…According to one of the post-modern philosophies, existentialism, we are therefore doomed to freedom (Sartre, 1965). According to another philosophy, social constructivism, we are free to choose what we make of our lives, because everything changes all the time (Bertens, 1994). This implies fear and insecurity, but also provides unrestricted space to numerous equal, parallel ways to deal with things.…”

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“…The contemporary philosophy that evolved roughly after the Second World War is called "postmodernism" (Anderson, 1999;Bertens, 1994;Scruton, 2006). The core of this trend is the idea that objectivity and the absolute truth do not exist.…”

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Integrative Medicine: A Bridge between Biomedicine and Alternative Medicine Fitting the Spirit of the Age

Hoenders¹,

Appelo²,

Jong³

2012

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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are increasingly used by people in first world countries, almost always in combination with biomedicine. The combination of CAM and biomedicine is now commonly referred to as "integrative medicine" (IM). In Groningen, The Netherlands, we founded a center for integrative psychiatry, offering conventional and complementary mental health care. Like other centers for integrative (mental) health we have mostly received positive reactions although there have been negative and even hostile reactions as well, using phrases like "quackery" and "betrayal". We will try to illustrate that these polarising qualifications, in which "the good" is being positioned against "the bad" in an over-simplified manner, are unnecessary and not useful. Moreover, it is unlikely that this polarisation will stall the growth of IM. It seems that integration is not only a current tendency in medicine, but also a trend fitting the contemporary spirit of the age in which integration seems to be the most common focus. It can be observed in religion, philosophy, spirituality and psychotherapy as well. This article will discuss the difference between differentiation and integration and will show that the focus on differentiation or integration varies with time, mostly rising as a reaction to each other. The transition from one period to the next is often met with resistance and criticism. If the integrative movement is to survive, it cannot do without differentiation and must find a middle way in which appropriate attention is being paid to keeping the integrated parts sufficiently differentiated and allowing them to keep their own identity.

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The Idea of the Postmodern

Cited by 217 publications

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Liminality, Postmodernity and Passion: Towards a Theoretical Framework for the study of 21st Century Choral Passion Settings

Liminality, Postmodernity and Passion: Towards a Theoretical Framework for the study of 21st Century Choral Passion Settings

The Postmodern Curriculum in a Modern Classroom

Integrative Medicine: A Bridge between Biomedicine and Alternative Medicine Fitting the Spirit of the Age

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