Perspectives | Key Words #2

• Enlightened - learning the truth behind a once believed falsehood, showing understanding about things.
  
• Ahistorical - not concerned with/or related to history, historical development, or tradition.
• Irreducible - not able to reduce or to make smaller or simpler.
• Objective - having one's opinion not influenced by emotions, but by hard facts.
• Transparent - understandable, reliable.
• Universal - holds true for everyone despite their race, sex and religion.
  
• Definitive - final version of something that cannot be changed or improved.
• Fixed - arranged or decided already and not able to be changed.
• Structuralism - is about breaking something down to its components, examine what it is made of, how those things fit together and thereby understand how all the other things are assambled. In other words, get at the deep structure of that object:what is that essential thing that makes the object what it is and not something else. (One size fits all)
• Modernism - seeks to find new forms of expression and rejects traditional or accepted ideas.
• The Enlightenment Project -  is an attempt to explain and define the human being through science and trying to master it through usage of technology.
  
• Poststructuralism - different to Sturcuralism, Poststructuralism believes in plurality of meaning, for example the meaning of a sentence is not absolute there are indefinite interpretations to it. In other words, Poststructuralism can be seen as a critique to Structuralism, emphasizing plurality of meaning and instability of concepts Structuralism uses to define society, language etc.
• "The Unreliable Narrator" - a character who is telling the story not in complete accuracy due to problems with the character's mental state or maturity.