Defining Post-Positivism

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This paper defines Post-Positivism as a definitional exercise in identity politics, in expanding cultural and semiotic discourse, and reinterpreting the continuing literary effort of the 20th and 21st centuries to deconstruct human life and society. This idea is expanded throughout the paper with examples being provided.

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"Postmodernism, the literary buzzword of the past century, is often considered to be a "liberal" form of hermeneutics, in the sense that rather than attempting to define what makes the canon great, it attempts to expand the notion of what is a literary canon, what is great literature in general. However, many liberal political activists have accused the deconstructionist movement and the postmodern aesthetic for its tendency towards reductionism and relativism. As such, betraying one's race through the sex and sexual politics of postmodernism has become "as common as corn." (Moya & Hames-Garcia 74)"

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