“或许,在我们关于后现代主义的言谈中,能够说的最清楚、最明确的一点是:它就是一个非常不清楚的、争议性非常大的概念。”这是哲学家理查得·舒斯特曼在撰写“美学和后现代主义”一章时使用的开场白,但他却在为这一章节作结时,提出后现代主义“坚持的信条是:艺术和美学,在我们的社会、伦理和政治领域是如此的强大而无处不在,以至于我们无法把它们自己与 ”Perhaps the clearest and clearest thing we can say about our postmodernist talk is that it’s a very unclear and controversial concept.“ ”It’s philosopher Richard Schusterman uses the opening remarks in the chapter on “Aesthetics and Postmodernism,” but when he concludes this chapter he proposes that postmodernism "insists on the creed of: Art and Aesthetics Are so powerful and ubiquitous in our social, ethical and political arenas that we can not associate ourselves with