On whether time tells... A revision of postmodern history

This paper argues postmodernism is not, in itself, destructive of the possi bility of historical or other forms of knowledge being able to be produced. This is because the epistemological scepticism, overt within postmodernism , mirrors a similar position, less openly accepted, which has lain at the h eart of knowledge throughout the western tradition. Postmodernity should no t therefore be seen as an historical period in which a certainty and ration ality which was once though to have existed has broken down, but rather one in which the means by which knowledge is and has always been constructed m ust of necessity now be a part of the knowledge thus produced.