The need for philosophical analysis in a postmodern era

The word "postmodern" has no clear meaning, and there is no coherent conception of postmodernism. The central ideas associated with postmodernism are variously, true but familiar and relatively insignificant, false, or misconceived. There are certain basic epistemological points that cannot in good faith be coherently denied. The nature of these is such to make it clear that philosophical analysis (understood in a particular sense and distinguished from linguistic analysis) is a sine quo non of generating understanding and making meaning. © Kluwer Academic Publishers.