We are not to think that modernism has left the scene. But it is no longer ruling as king in secular thought. Modernism will likely be relegated to a place among history’s failures because its epistemology made it incapable of delivering on its promises. Postmodernism did not appear from nowhere. It arose from the failure of modernism. Modernism believed that Truth existed and that it could be found by reason. Modernism was optimistic. In times of highest hope it was utopian. Those who switched to
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