Postmodernism

Abstract

Nietzche may not be the direct cause of the confusion and emptiness of postmodernism, but he at least was the cultural prophet who heralded its coming. The age of enlightenment ushered in cultural modernism. It gradually displaced God’s authority with man’s reason. In its pursuit of the discovery of the secrets of the universe, academia believed that it could solve all the problems of humanity. With each scientific and technological advance from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, God became less and less relevant.