. . It can be called deconstructive or eliminative postmodernism. It overcomes the modern worldview through an antiworldview: it deconstructs or eliminates the ingredients necessary for a worldview, such as God, self, purpose, meaning, a real world, and truth as correspondence. While motivated in some cases by the ethical concern to forestall totalitarian systems, this type of postmodern thought issues in relativism, even nihilism. It would be called ultramodernism, in that its eliminations result from carrying modern premises to their logical conclusions. (Griffin et al 1993: viii-ix).
Griffin declares that he endorses another option of constructive or revisionary postmodernism. Revisionary postmodernism tries to overcome the error of the modern worldview by a revision of the modern premises and traditional concepts through a new integration of scientific, ethical, aesthetic, and religious intuitions. It shows concern for both postmodern persons with a postmodern spirituality and postmodern global order in the postmodern societies by listening to the voices of the ecology movement, feminist's critique, pacifist's petition and transcending the "individualism, anthropocentrism, patriarchy, mechanization, economism, consumerism, nationalism, and militarism- (Griffin .
1993:ix). Revisionary postmodernists try to salvage a positive meaning for the human self, history, and truth as correspondence which are central to modernity; some even try to promote the premodern notions of divine reality, cosmic meaning, and an enchanted nature. Such philosophers as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Henri Bergson, Alfred North Whitehead, and Charles Hartshorne are recognized as representatives of revisionary postmodern philosophers (Griffin et al 1993).
Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern.
From the previous survey we know that the concept of postmodern' is not unitarily definable.
For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...