Interestingly, the Luba model of history as a retrospective construction finds strong echoes in postmodernist Western theory of recent years.

Most conspicuously, perhaps, postmodernist theory has raised its ultra-skeptical head to allege that objectivity being impossible, there is no truth.

But all of these ideas have been under strenuous attack by postmodernist theory and much recent critical writing.

He is known for contributions to contemporary musicology and applications of postmodernist theory in musicology.

In the 1960s and 1970s so-called post-structuralist and postmodernist theory, drawing upon structuralism and phenomenology as much as classical social science, made a considerable impact on frames of sociological enquiry.

During Rand's later career, he became increasingly agitated about the rise of postmodernist theory and aesthetic in design.

Gender, as anyone who has sipped at the supremely relativizing potion of postmodernist theory has come to understand, is a fragile construct, wobbling atop its binary foundation.

Although there are various strands of thinking, a key element to postmodernist theories is a distrust of any account of human life which claims to have direct access to the "truth".

The final chapters of The Meaning of Race contain a critique of postmodernist and poststructuralist theories, including the views of Edward Said.

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory.