Theology and rhetoric: redefining the relationship between res and verba by P. Lampe

“…Part IV shows a way to overcome postmodern indifference with regard to “truth.” …”
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The Question of Metropolitan Form: Introduction by Anne Vernez Moudon, François Claessens, David Prosperi

“…Many of the papers in this issue begin with the straw-man notion of a formless agglomeration of activities and spaces, the – for lack of a better phrase – postmodern urban experience.[1] There is a persistent theme in the related literatures of architecture, urban design and urban and regional planning that the physical form of the contemporary metropolis is un-describable. …”
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A critical assessment of John Milbank's Christology by N. Vorster

“…This inadequacy is probably due to the way in which he fuses Neo-Platonism and postmodern lingualism in order to construct his ontology. …”
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Conceptualising religion in the 21st century: Examining the proposal of Mark C. Taylor in After God

“…Hence, Taylor rejects any closed, rigid system of neo-foundationalism as found in our postmodern, globalised world. For Taylor, there are no solid grounds; there is only creative emergence, from which reality is figured and disfigured in an oscillating interplay. …”
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Enhancing of teaching and learning through constructive alignment by G. E. Dames

“…It appears that former and current students find it difficult to align their studies and to adapt to an unfamiliar, diverse, pluralistic and complex postmodern society. We teach content and assess students on the basis of what they know. …”
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EDUCATION: REAL AND DUE ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ: СУЩЕЕ И ДОЛЖНОЕ ОСВІТА: СУЩЕ ТА НАЛЕЖНЕ by V. V. Khmel

“…To the fore the question of what should be a process of education
 in the postmodern situation and on the basis of the Bologna concept. …”
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TÜKETİM TOPLUMU VE TÜKETİM TOPLUMUNA YÖNELTİLEN ELEŞTİRİLER ÜZERİNE BİR TARTIŞMA by Nil Esra Dal

“…Tüketim, çeşitli şekillerde ortayaçıksa da her zaman var olan bir olgudur. Postmodern eğilimler ile birliktetüketime yüklenen anlamlar değişmiştir. …”
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La Défense / Zone B (1953-91): Light and Shadows of the French Welfare State by Pierre Chabard

“…From the slab projects of Le Corbusier and his epigones to the urban compositions of postmodern architects, along the proliferating textures of Jacques Kalisz, or the humanized ‘grands ensembles’ of Emile Aillaud, the many EPAD projects for Zone B, built or not, constitute a complete collection that documents the evolution of the ‘architecture urbaine’ from the mid 1950s to the turn of the 1990s.…”
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Practice of Physical Activity through Active Video Games in Addressing Obesity in Pediatric Ages by Brian Johan Bustos Viviescas, Carlos Enrique García Yerena, Carlos Alberto Romero Cuestas

“…These proposals constitute postmodern alternatives that motivate a change in sedentary behaviors to consolidate healthy lifestyle habits. …”
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The Role of Information War in the Strengthening of Stereotypes about Russia in the Western Political Space by Irina Milutinović, Aleksandar Gajić

“…Media and information policies play an indispensable role in shaping stereotypes in the modern and postmodern era. Therefore, the aim of this research is to point at the role of media discourse in supporting and forming negative stereotypes about contemporary Russia. …”
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Reflections on the current state and future of strategic communication as paradigm and practice by Nina Overton-De Klerk

“…The author suggests that the time has come to move beyond postmodern thinking towards both-and thinking and embrace a more comprehensive approach of critical complexity, acknowledging the reciprocal relationship between the parts and the whole. …”
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HUMAN INACTIVITY IN THE CONTEXT OF SUBJECT’S IDENTITY PROBLEM by Dmytro Yu. Snitko

“…The subject of article is analyze of essence postmodern understanding of human; finding relationship with personal identity and inactivity; accentuation on existential aspects of this relation; to investigate the alternatives to classical and pluralistic conceptions of subject’s identity. …”
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Condição humana, condição cidadã: um ensaio sobre a dignidade da política e os desafios do novo Estado democrático by Adelia Maria Miglievich Ribeiro

“…Key words: social theory, postmodern critique, social movements.…”
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Alienation in Families and the Breakdown in Children’s Educational Process: Ann Tyler’s Teenage Wasteland (1983) by Zennure Köseman

“…This research article highlights that postmodern era after the modern period causes fragmentation because of the existence of alienation and isolation senses in family units and ends up undesirable failure in children’s educational process as reflected in American writer Ann Tyler’s Teenage Wasteland. …”
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The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard by Pieter Duvenage

“…The point is that with the “… greater mediatization of society … we are witnessing the virtualization of our world.”2 This contribution briefly reconstructs, firstly, two phases in Baudrillard’s intellectual career – phases that shifted from an early neo-Marxist critique of the modern consumer society to a post-Marxist or postmodern view of society (which include engagements with socio-anthropology; psychoanalysis, sociology, semiology and media theory), and eventually ends in a kind of anti-theory with an extreme fatal vision of the world.3 In section 2 the implications of these two shifts in Baudrillard’s intellectual career are contextualized in the field of media and communication studies – and specifically his concept of the “ecstasy of communication”. …”
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RACIONALAUS KONSENSUSO PROBLEMA: J. RAWLSAS VERSUS J. F. LYOTARD’AS by Nida Vasiliauskaitė

“…LYOTARDNida Vasiliauskaitė Summary The article deals with the problem of a rational consensus in contemporary political philosophy, arosed by postmodern critique of modern Reason. In this context two important ideas – an „Overlapping consensus“ of John Rawls and „the Differend“ of Jean-Francois Lyotard – are discussed, compared and criticized. …”
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From the Internet of Things to the Objectification of the Human Being: Sociopolitical Construction of Technology and a Critique of Society 5.0 by Cahit Bağcı

“…This article examines if Society 5.0 will be able to accomplish a postmodern structure through a new culture (i.e., acculturation). …”
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Multicultural heritage in historical towns: the problems of conservation and interpretation by Rasa Čepaitienė

“…Two attitudes, mono-perspective (nationalistic) and multi-perspective (postmodern), towards the relation of ethnic communities and prevailing culture are distinguished. …”
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Blogging down a dictatorship by Last Moyo

“…I argue that this radicalism in part articulates a postmodern philosophy and style as seen in its rejection of the elaborate codes and conventions of mainstream journalism. …”
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Review of the theoretical underpinnings in the creative tourism research field by Rui Miguel Ferreira Carvalho, Carlos Manuel Martins da Costa, Ana Maria Alves Pedro Ferreira

“…After a thorough literature review, the authors conceptualised three main theoretical contributions present in creative tourism literature: 1) creativity and its relation to tourism, (2) specialised consumption as a characteristic of the postmodern tourist and 3) the experience economy paradigm and co-creation. …”
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