Perspectives: Postmodernism Key Words 3

• Metanarrative
•  a narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience, or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a master idea. A theory that tries to give a totalizing, comprehensive account to various historical events, experiences, and social, cultural phenomena based upon the appeal to universal truth or universal values.
• Essentialism
• The view that every entity has a set of attributes that are necessary to its identity and function. 
• Utopian
• Modelled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic. An imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. 
• Axiomatic
• Self-evident or unquestionable. 
• Dystopian
• A dystopia is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as "not-good place" and is an antonym of utopia.
• Scepticism
• A sceptical attitude; doubt as to the truth of something. It is generally any questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more items of putative knowledge or belief. It is often directed at domains, such as the supernatural, morality, religion, or knowledge.
• Relativism
• The doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute.
• Pluralism
• The recognition and affirmation of diversity within a political body, which permits the peaceful coexistence of different interests, convictions and lifestyles. A condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist.