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Abby Innes, Hilary Lawson and Robin van den Akker debate what postmodernism has done to us.

Is it more dangerous to reject truth or to believe in it?

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Hugely influential in the latter decades of the 20th century, postmodernism transformed many academic disciplines and culture at large. Associated with an attack on objective truth and the uniqueness of meaning, it called into question the whole edifice of knowledge which Western culture had previously glorified. But it left many lost, and in the wake of a polarising post-truth world, there is a widespread recognition that we need to move on. Feminist and post-colonial critics though claim there is a danger that instead we risk retreating to the questionable certainties of the past. Alongside defenders of objective truth like Richard Dawkins and Noam Chomsky, figures like Jordan Peterson argue for a return to moral certainties and belief in the existence of God.

Are there viable alternatives to postmodernism that are not simply a return to belief in universal truth? Are metamodernism or model-theoretic realism possible ways forward? Or is the chaos initiated by postmodernism so profound that the only credible approach is to return to the Enlightenment notion that we can arrive at the objective truth?

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Robin van den Akker is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Culture. He is a leading scholar of Metamodernism and founding editor of Notes on Metamodernism. Abby Innes is an Associate Professor in Political Economy at the LSE. Hilary Lawson is a philosopher best known for his theory 'Closure', a post-analytic return to metaphysics, and an outspoken critic of philosophical realism. Sophie Scott-Brown hosts.

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