Postmodernism: Transition from the Newtonian to the Quantum Paradigm

The praxis of modern culture, including its life styles, values, metaphors, languages, myths, etc. have been almost imperialistically generated and dominated by science. The scientific culture is universal because, as Peacocke has rightly judged, “today one of the universal languages of humanity cutting across all cultural boundaries is that of science” (1989:11). This dialectical mutuality between science and culture has been a historical reality over the centuries, and this indissoluble link between the two is what has brought science and scientific issues on to the platform of the postmodern debates. No wonder the polyvalence of the concept of modernity has been so over-encompassing