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Postmodernism rejects essentialism

This is not fragmentation for fragmentation’s sake, however. Underlying it is an intellectual rejection of various kinds of essentialism or realism. Before postmodernism, so we are told, most dominant modes of thought took reality to have a single, real essence.

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