Modern academic postmodernism grew from 1980s literary deconstruction

Evidence

When one speaks of postmodernism over the last thirty years one is probably talking about a movement that grew out of literary criticism in many colleges and universities in the 1980s, as a result of Jean-François Lyotard’s influential 1979 book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. … One was Derrida’s theory of “deconstructing” literature, whereby we cannot rely on the idea that an author knew what he or she “meant” in a text so we must break it apart and examine it as a function of the political, social, historical, and cultural assumptions behind it. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 243

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postmodernism’s supposed novelties stem from longer trends and the 1980s conjuncture — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 49; Deconstruction and structuralism, not Western Marxism, formed the theoretical ground of 1980s American criticism — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 239; Eighties postmodern theory predicted today’s cultural blankness precisely — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 29 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism’s supposed novelties stem from longer trends and the 1980s conjuncture #corroborates (0.85) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 49
• Postmodernism fuses changes in the arts with poststructuralist philosophy #expands (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 27
• Deconstruction’s rise marked literary criticism’s transition into literary theory. #expands (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 230
• Deconstruction and structuralism, not Western Marxism, formed the theoretical ground of 1980s American criticism #expands (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 239
• Eighties postmodern theory predicted today’s cultural blankness precisely #qualifies (0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 29