It explains how thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault, and Baudrillard linked knowledge with power and questioned language, meaning, and reference, leading to the spread of relativism and nihilism. The study also discusses key postmodern concepts, including the deconstruction of meaning, the death of the author, and the absence of reference, and explores how these ideas contributed to the collapse of coherent knowledge, the decline of objective truth, the rise of a "culture of surfaces," and the emergence of the post-truth era. Furthermore, it examines the postmodern rejection of grand narratives, such as religion, science, and ideologies, and their replacement with localized or minor narratives. It then presents both rational and religious critiques of postmodernism, highlighting its internal contradictions, its inability to establish stable moral standards, and the difficulty of condemning injustice within a framework of absolute relativism.
It concludes that postmodernism has failed to provide a coherent epistemological alternative and has contributed to intellectual and moral confusion, while affirming that religion offers a stable foundation of truth and meaning in contrast to the postmodern perspective, which leads to intellectual and human disorientation.
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