Humanism & Post-Modernism

"this subject is more appropriately conceptualised as an 'individual' or 'person' and is seen to posess the capacity for constructing the social world in a way that is meaningful to her/him. It is precisely this notion of the individual as the centre of the socialuniverse that is the object of such vehement criticism by structuralism and its post-structualist and psotmodern offshoots. This thetrefore represents a radical distinction between  the humanist and postmodern forms of thinking. Dispite this crucial divergence, there are other pioints at which there is some overlap between  humanist schools of thought and postmodernism.In particular there is  emphasis on the ocaland fragmentary nature of meaning, an anti-theoretical strain and a distruct of the search for objective truth which is the hallmark of conventional scientific enquiry.

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