The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 72 of 254
Postmodernism and the fragmented self
One of the most fashionable drivers behind the idea that we should all think of ourselves as multiple rather than singular is postmodernism. The nature of ‘postmodernism’ is hard to pin down, not least because it is in part a denial of the apparently old-fashioned idea that any reality can be pinned down, or even that there is such a thing as reality to be pinned down. It is, however, possible to say some general things about postmodernism which explain why it makes such a good bedfellow for the view of self as multiple. If postmodernism has a unifying theme it is one of fragmentation, which it picked up from modernism and ran with wildly.