POST MODERNISM AND POST STRUCTURALISM-SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE CONTRIBUTION OFFREDRICJAMESON AND JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Abstract

Post modernism and post structuralism are two intellectual construct use to explain the current happenings in the' socio economic and linguistic sphere of the society. The construct has difference its content and Execution. Sociologically it denotes the changes in the cultural and social outlook of the people. For Frederic Jameson the content of postmodernism is associated with the late logic of capitalism. Capitalism determines the current pace of post modernity in our cybernetic society. In this hyper real world, the process of simulation redefines the realties in to hyper realities which are not corresponding the actual images. For boudrillard the current happening in the linguistic world is directly or indirectly determines the differences in epistemological quest and linguistic fonnulations. This study is a descriptive attempt to understand the process of pot modernity and post structuralism within the theoretical preview of Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard.