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Postmodernity, also called postmodernity, is a very broad concept that refers to a trend of

culture, art and philosophy that emerged at the end of the twentieth century. At a general
level, it can be said that the postmodern is associated with the cult of individuality, the
absence of interest in the common welfare and the rejection of rationalism, although the
idea has many edges.
The postmodern movement, roughly speaking, maintains that modernity failed to renew
its forms of thought and expression. That is why postmodern thought is associated with
disenchantment and apathy, since part of what it understands as a failure of society.

The term postmodern was first used around the 1880s. John Watkins Chapman suggested
"a Postmodern style of painting" as a way to depart from French Impressionism.[6] J. M.
Thompson, in his 1914 article in The Hibbert Journal (a quarterly philosophical review),
used it to describe changes in attitudes and beliefs in the critique of religion, writing: "The
raison d'tre of Post-Modernism is to escape from the double-mindedness of Modernism
by being thorough in its criticism by extending it to religion as well as theology, to Catholic
feeling as well as to
Catholic tradition

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