Truth and Knowledge in Postmodernism

AbstractWhat is knowledge, according to postmodernism: re-cognition or creation? Does accepting all the existing synchronic and diachronic viewpoints weaken the need to undertake responsibility and become involved? Is putting things into perspective synonymous of no longer feeling responsible? What does the specificity of knowledge consist of in postmodernism? These are all questions to which our paper means to provide an answer by putting the relativist stance of postmodernism opposite the need of feeling it is incumbent upon oneself to play a part in creating the truth. In the author's opinion, while rejecting the idea of a preexisting truth and the solutions based on the existence of incompatible truths, knowledge means assuming an attitude denoting confidence in the truth of a committing skepticism. Situated somewhere between Rorty and Popper, this paper militates for the truth recovery