Postmodern Basics
This movement rejects universal truths and embraces diversity, complexity, and subjectivity.
Postmodernism
The philosopher who said we live in a “copy world”, a simulacra, where models replace reality.
Jean Baudrillard
Luckmann said people now create personal religions, known as this.
Sheilaism
The leader who believed Black people should uplift themselves “by their bootstraps.”
Booker T. Washington
MLK’s “love force” and “soul force” were inspired by this Indian activist.
Mahatma Gandhi
that science will give us all the answers (rejected by postmodernists.)
what is the enlightenment ideal
This thinker said “there is no final vocabulary,” meaning words can always be reinterpreted.
Richard Rorty
Sheilaism shows there is no single overarching religion..... only this type of spirituality.
Individual / Personal spirituality
Whites admired BTW for this attitude, earning him the nickname “The Great ________.”
Accommodator
who rejected integration and said know your situation and enemy
Malcom X
who said there is no timeless or universal “master”
who is Lyotard
The term describing a world that feels “more real than real.”
Hyperreality
Postmodern religion focuses less on institutions and more on these
Personal experiences and truths
Du Bois argued Black Americans didn’t need justice later—they needed it ________.
now
this person said black is beautiful and rejected integration
who is Carmichael
Postmodernists prefer local, contextual claims instead of this “one-size-fits-all” idea.
what is "universal truth"
Lyotard called postmodern thinkers this because they doubt their own final vocabulary.
Ironists
What was Du Bois Race Theory?
Double consciousness
Du Bois was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from this Ivy League school.
Harvard University
Reinhold Niebuhr said individuals can be moral, but the ____ often acts immorally.(this larger unit)
Nation
According to Lyotard, science operates like....
language game
Lyotard’s “intellectual elitist terrorism” criticizes people who act as if they have this over truth.
Final authority
Postmodernism rejects this Enlightenment idea that truth and morality are objective.
Universal reason / Rationalism
Washington wanted self-reliance; Du Bois said white people must do this to fight inequality.
Help Black advancement / Support racial justice
hooks said to end racism, whites must stop “pimping whiteness,” and Blacks must stop this.
Uncle Tomming (betraying their race)