Asked to sum up, Professor Giddens said and I have this almost verbatim that the seminar showed there was a new cultural sensibility emerging, based on the collapse of neo-liberalism and post-modernism, and the start of global cosmopolitanism.

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About then, I suspect, we will also grow tired of irony, deconstruction and post-modernism.

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Mr Sollers has swung from Maoism through post-modernism to Catholicism, relishing a reputation for intellectual dandyism (which he would accept) and for inconsistency (which he denies).

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As an academic discipline, he says, education has been heavily influenced by post-modernism the school of philosophy in which all meaning is regarded as subjective and all truth as relative.

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When he tired of Modernism in the 1950s, he led the charge into Post-Modernism, embracing every novelty and exploring its most transient and trendy aspects, a move that took his most ardent supporters and converts to Modernism by surprise.

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Post-modernism calls the shots today.

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They include anyone who uses alternative medicine, or who buys organic food, or worries about genetic modification, or opposes nuclear power, or likes post-modernism, or doesn't vaccinate their children properly, or distrusts scientists, or believes the Bible, or dislikes global capitalism or thinks that human progress damages the environment.

ECONOMIST: Science