From Enlightenment to Postmodernism.
        The emergence of feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and postmodern philosophy served as catalyst for the transition from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism. The eighteenth century philosophical, semipolitical and scientific suasion in search for freedom, equality and perceptual constancy relied upon the belief in reason and rationality as its sound values. It depended on the binary structures so criticized and rethought by feminists and postmodern philosophers. In the postmodernist ideology the dominant force is technology which creates the orifice to govern nature and human beings. All the philosophical illusions of the eighteenth century that relied on knowledge and reason as a route to freedom are put into question by postmodernist replacement of knowledge by competing explanations. In this paper, I will attempt to elaborate on the enlightenment thought and values through the presentation of theories and arguments of Rousseau, and Voltaire, Hume, Montesquieu, Wollstonecraft and Smith; and relate them to postmodernist thinkers such as Foucault, Rorty, and Lyotard . The analysis of the deeds will highlighting the changes in the political, economic, and social spheres.
The period of Scientific Revolution began in the seventeenth century and the scientific ideas solidified during the Enlightenment. Ever since and then the world has been rapidly evolving with the help of scientific and technological distribute which is not likely to cease in future provided that we spend the emergence of nuclear war. However, it is hard to deny something that is probable. In the twentieth century has emerged the widest diversity of airplanes, computers, as well as, nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of jam destruction. All those were initially wartime devices that were created for destructive purposes. It is the consequence for which J.F.
Lyotard blames techno scientific, artistic, economic, and political culture for creating the possibility of total war, totalitarianism, poverty, unemployment, as well...
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