A Trajectory of Ideas from Enlightenment to Postmodernism

Abstract

A trajectory of ideas from the period of Enlightenment to postmodernism steps ahead through many stages of human evolution in its sociolinguistic peripheries. Humans craving for better life and existence in this world makes himself dependent that produces a series of conflicts in course between the self and authority resulting in degradation or up gradation of human soul that evidently marked a great influence on his ideas and activities. His ceaseless work and various scientific invention empowered him to step ahead even towards nothingness, towards a collaged culture, a cosmopolitan existence of human life which is not limited by bond and boundary of any particular nation or race and this predominantly modifies and regulates the tastes of the literary world as a whole.