Post – Modernism Perspective in Humanities

A Critical Appraisal of its Relevance to Africa

Abstract

Rosenau (1993) observes that proponents of postmodernism claim to relinquish all attempts to create new knowledge in a systematic fashion, but project an anti–rule fashion of discuss. This perspective being expounded by postmodernists have profound implication in humanities and social science scholarship especially in its contention that there are limits and limitations of modern reason that are inherent in the forms and types of reasoning and social analysis that has characterized society and the modern. But does this perspective have any merit and most especially for us in the third world. This is the angle this study shall take and we hope at the end, we should have been able to render a critical appraisal of this approach in the broader Humanities disciplines.