The Emphasis on Difference Sample Clauses

The Emphasis on Difference. The postmodern dismisses central discourses such as dominant culture, essential constituent, and overall plan, and pays more attention to diversity rather than unity, periphery part rather than central part, the others rather than the self. The postmodern view illuminates the world as composed of a play of difference and as an indefinite number of meaning-generating agencies. Consequently, in this postmodern perspective society can be reduced to a relatively self-sustained and autonomous text, and all subjects with their own respective logics are armed with their own facilities of truth-validation.71 Postmodern invalidation of any dominant ideology or central concept allows space for the so-called “politics of difference”, including the various and 71 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Intimations of Postmodernity, pp.35-39. dispersive stories made by outsider groups to ensure their own identity against the governing discourse. This can be seen in the postmodern concern with the stories of the other driven away into the periphery: women’s protest against patriarchy, homosexuals’ revolt against heterosexism, non-Western resistance to the Western orientalism that manipulates difference to maintain status. The postmodern perception that the other is excluded from the symbolic order and regulated by the sovereign discourse as the relatively inferior allows that other, decentralized by existing power relationships, to be embedded as a new centre of political action. Here, postmodernism is effective in analysing and investigating the causes of the exclusion of periphery groups. Its worldview has contributed to the dissipation of fixed ideas on sex, ethnicity and religion, and to the expansion of the individual's conscious horizons. There is now a general understanding that to accept the other and to admit difference in communities is a postmodern condition. On the other hand, whereas postmodernism contributed to the diversification of society by admitting unique voices alienated in social discourse, it made an error in devaluating the solidarity of community; by absolutizing difference it produced socio-cultural separatism. Postmodernism that insists on the universalization of difference discounts the possibility of community. Moreover, we should note that clinging to a certain bond does not necessarily mean failure to admit difference. As “the subject within community”,72 we embody our identity in community, and at the same time have close links with the other.
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