The Post-Postmodern Turn: Challenging the Application of Kuhn's Model

Abstract

The point of departure for this article is the much-debateddeathof postmodernism, heralded by influential expertson the subject such as Linda Hutcheon or Ihab Hassanat the beginning of the new millennium. Although the academic community as a whole has not agreed with this fact, there was an intense debate during the first years of the twenty-firstcentury that was evidence of a change of attitude towards this cultural phase. With this in mind, the aim of this study is to provide a theoretical framework for the change in order to understand its nature. Analysing the theories developed by Thomas S. Kuhn on paradigm shifts in the field of science and applying themto thecontext of critical theory at the beginning of the millenniumserves to challenge the very idea of postmodernismas a paradigmin the terms developed in Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions