Sublime

Foundationalism is the idea that we, scientists with nature or readers with texts, can find some place that will provide a dependable “basis” of firm, secure, incontrovertible “knowledge” on which we can then build systems of secondary values, beliefs, systems of thought or belief. Nonfoundationalists argue that no such place exists in the

Truth, I will argue, cannot be kept confined to quarters inside what the Enlightenment called Reason, not because it is identified with an infinite God, as it was before modernity, but because it bears within itself a different sort of infinity, that of endless difference and diversification.

Deconstruction posited that all texts are unstable and irreducibly complex and that ever variable meanings are imputed by readers and observers.

the general idea that the world may be different from how we perceive it: to better understand the world, it may be necessary to radically revise our image of it.

“deferral,”

os “pós-modernos” vão atacar duas das mais importantes convicções que animavam os Modernos do século XVII ao XIX: aquela segundo a qual o ser humano seria o centro do mundo, o princípio de todos os valores morais e políticos; aquela que considera a razão um formidável poder libertador,

não existem fatos, apenas interpretações”: