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This is a philosophical and cultural trend, a special mindset. Arose in France in the 1960s, an atmosphere of intellectual resistance to the total offensive of mass culture on human consciousness. In Russia, when Marxism collapsed as an ideology providing a reasonable approach to life, rational explanation went away and the realization of irrationality came. Postmodernism focused on the phenomenon of fragmentation, split in the consciousness of the individual. Postmodernism does not give advice, but describes a state of consciousness. The art of postmodernism is ironic, sarcastic, grotesque (after I.P. Ilyin)