The most representative slogan of modernism is Nietzsche's "God is dead", so the most representative slogan of postmodernism is Foucault's "Man as the subject is dead". Postmodernism holds that after breaking away from the shackles of theology and becoming a master, people fall into the trap of rational totalitarianism out of their own alienation. Post-modernism, under the banner of criticizing and rebelling against modernism, takes people pushed to the forefront of history by the Enlightenment as the focus of criticism. Criticizing people is criticizing the values of modern westerners. These values can be summarized as three dominant theories in western philosophy since the Enlightenment: expressionism in epistemology, foundationalism in truth and universalism in history.

Western philosophy in the 20th century took it as its responsibility to dispel this principle of subjectivity and followed Nietzsche's cry "God is dead!" There are also "the subject is dead" or even "people are dead" behind the slogan ... So, people are dead, that is, the subject is dead, that is, the subjective philosophy is dead. The subject becomes a thing whose whereabouts are unknown. With the death of philosophical abstract subject

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