Criticism of postmodernism

Criticism of postmodernism encompasses critical attitudes toward postmodernity, postmodern philosophy, postmodern art, and postmodern architecture. Postmodernism is generally defined by an attitude of skepticism, irony, or rejection towards what it describes as the meta-narratives and ideologies associated with modernism, especially those associated with Enlightenment rationality. Common targets of postmodern criticism include universalist ideas of objective reality, morals (moral universalism), truth, reason, science, language, human nature, and social progress, which in turn are defended by postmodernism's critics.

Critiques of postmodernism frequently allege that its scholars promote obscurantism, are hostile to objective truth, and encourage relativism in culture, morality, and knowledge to an extent that is epistemically and ethically crippling. Criticism of more artistic postmodern movements in the arts have included objections to a departure from beauty, lack of coherence or comprehensibility, deviating from clear structure and a consistent use of dark and negative themes.

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