Situating Postmodernism in cognitive developmental perspective

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  • Stephen Chilton

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2002.2.102

Abstract

Postmodernism’s critique of normative systems is insightful but also subject to reflexive self_negation and consequent political impotence. This essay attempts to both honor and rescue postmodernism by situating it as the part of a dialectical structure – Habermas’s “reconstructive science” – including both construction and deconstruction. Kohlberg’s sequence of moral reasoning stages is used to organize these various theoretical positions. Key words: Postmodernism; moral cognitive development; reconstructive science.

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Published

2007-05-03

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Chilton, S. (2007). Situating Postmodernism in cognitive developmental perspective. Civitas: Journal of Social Sciences, 2(2), 285–292. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2002.2.102

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2002): Democracy, media and political culture

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