Challenges to dominant ideologies

Contemporary ideologies

respect difference and variety, its a product of social and economic change

Postmodernism

Most fundamental challenge to modernism. It rejects claims that any one ideology is able to encompass total understanding of the social and political world. It´s skeptical of enlightenment belief.

Michael Foucault

Said truth and knowledge are shaped by power structures, and what´s real changes depending on who has power.

Jacques Derrida

Says language does not reflect a fixed reality, it creates it through endless interpretations