Explaining Postmodernism

Postmodernism literary criticism rejects the notion that literary texts have objective meanings and true interpretations. All such claims to objectivity and truth can be deconstructed. ... The task of literary critic, accordingly, is to deconstruct the text to reveal the author's race, sex or class interests. - Explaining Postmodernism

Immanuel Kant is the most significant thinker of the Counter-Enlightenment. ... The fundamental question of reason is its relationship to reality. Is reason capable of knowing reality—or is it not? ... Kant was crystal clear about his answer. Reality—real, noumenal reality—is forever closed off to reason, and reason is limited to awareness and understanding of its own subjective products. - Kant’s skeptical conclusion