Postmodern Sociology

From grand narratives to fragmented selves

Joachim S. Bauer explores postmodernity as a fragmented, nihilistic paradigm that dismantles truth, identity, and hierarchy through deconstruction, and contrasts it with Alexander Dugin’s call for a sacred, hierarchical, and collectivist order rooted in tradition.

Postmodernity is the mistrust of grand narratives.

— Jean-François Lyotard

The postmodern soc…