While discussing the meaning of postmodern, the article discusses the aspects of allusion and reality of post-modern arts. According to the author, there is a thin line between what is presentable and what is not presentable. Presentable refers to the expression of positive appearance in the sense that it involves the presence that one can experience while the unpresentable is negative presentation that takes the form of things that are difficult to understand and which constitutes futile will. The author notes that the unpresentable information consists of inadequacies that ultimately cause establishment of new rules given that the excess of books and literature affects consciousness. On the other hand, the presentable works entails the presentation of co-existing ideas and disregards the vocabulary and grammar that authors use in their description of literary works. According to the author, the unpresentable works involves presentation of infinite ideas that provide that nothing should be derived from pre-established rules through specific categories of an individual’s work. In this regard, the article portrays unpresentable as a situation that develops an appearance that is neutral and unfavorable.
The aspects of what is presentable and unpresentable have a profound effect on the manner in which individuals understand religion. This is because the two aspects create circumstances where one becomes inquisitive of everything that is presented rather that follow the pre-existing rules that require accepting concepts without question. It is also in consideration of the ideas of socialism, freedom, and enlightenment, which consists of enquiring the legitimate value of past and present. Understanding religion from a postmodern point of view brings into the fore a rhetorical aspect that seeks to compare the present with different occurrences while portraying the latest as the most reliable. In this regard, the fact that religion mostly considers things that happened in the past makes religious accounts less favorable, and this creates doubts regarding religion in comparison to recent occurrences. This means that one is likely to be inclined more towards science given that it entails knowledge that can be legitimized as compared to most religious aspects that occurred thousands of years ago and which one cannot validate.
Work Cited
Lyotard, Jean-François. “Answering the question: what is the postmodern?” In The Postmodern
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