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Postmodern Political Theory Jean Baudrillard “Disneyworld Company” Leslie Paul Thiele. “Modernity and Postmodernity” Modernity (Thiele) Challenge to Tradition and Authority, by The Renaissance The Protestant Reformation The Scientific Revolution (against Dogma) (16th 17th centuries) The Industrial Revolution/s The Bourgeois Revolution/s Assumption: “The order of the universe is… accessible to reason and observation” (Thiele) ? Method Faith in: Science (to master the Universe) Humanity Progress Voluntarism Jean Fran?ois Lyotard The Postmodern Condition (1979) Lyotard defined Postmodernity