<P> Formal, academic critiques of postmodernism can also be found in works such as Beyond the Hoax and Fashionable Nonsense . </P> <P> However, as for continental philosophy, American academics have tended to label it "postmodernist", especially practitioners of "French Theory". Such a trend might derive from U.S. departments of Comparative Literature . It is interesting to note that Félix Guattari, often considered a "postmodernist", rejected its theoretical assumptions by arguing that the structuralist and postmodernist visions of the world were not flexible enough to seek explanations in psychological, social and environmental domains at the same time . </P> <P> Analytic philosopher Daniel Dennett declared, "Postmodernism, the school of' thought' that proclaimed' There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for' conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster ." </P> <P> Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry criticised Postmodernism for reducing the complexity of the modern world to an expression of power and for undermining truth and reason: "If the modern era begins with the European Enlightenment, the postmodern era that captivates the radical multiculturalists begins with its rejection . According to the new radicals, the Enlightenment - inspired ideas that have previously structured our world, especially the legal and academic parts of it, are a fraud perpetrated and perpetuated by white males to consolidate their own power . Those who disagree are not only blind but bigoted . The Enlightenment's goal of an objective and reasoned basis for knowledge, merit, truth, justice, and the like is an impossibility: "objectivity," in the sense of standards of judgment that transcend individual perspectives, does not exist . Reason is just another code word for the views of the privileged . The Enlightenment itself merely replaced one socially constructed view of reality with another, mistaking power for knowledge . There is naught but power ." </P>

What is considered to be the foundation of postmodern culture