BY
GASU Gideon
Nyuimbe
Southern Nigeria
Institute of Innovative Technolgy, Ifewara, Nigeria.
1.0 Introduction
The
postulate that legal facts and legal values are integrally related to the
general cultural milieu wherein they thrive must accompany all speculations in
the domain of jurisprudence. This
cultural hypothesis becomes all the more imperative to attempt to chronicle the
thoughts and to interpret the movements which characterize
the jurisprudence of any given generation, for denial of this postulate would imply acquiescence in a doctrine of creation ex inhilo – a brief which is repugnant to our logical instinct as it is unverifiable in experience[1]. Jurisprudence is a mirror which reflects and refracts from an angle all its own the myriad interests of mankind as they clash and are reconciled in the changing pattern of social institutions.
the jurisprudence of any given generation, for denial of this postulate would imply acquiescence in a doctrine of creation ex inhilo – a brief which is repugnant to our logical instinct as it is unverifiable in experience[1]. Jurisprudence is a mirror which reflects and refracts from an angle all its own the myriad interests of mankind as they clash and are reconciled in the changing pattern of social institutions.
It
is common knowledge that jurisprudence of any given epoch presents the
spectacle of a Babel of theories often over lapping, contradictory, and naively
one-sided in its profusion, it is beneficial from time to time to pause and
take stock of the work accomplished and of the needs fulfilled. Lest we lose our bearing under the pressure
of the conflicting winds of doctrine which is affecting our emotions as well as
our intellect, assail
us from all sides, it is good occasionally to faire le
bilan of current theories and to appraise with some degree of objectivity the
views which compete for supremacy in the struggle for persuasion.
Postmodernism
is “a notoriously ambiguous concept”[2]
culminating from modernity which seeks to overcome the historical period or a
system of thought and regime of knowledge (modern), or a cultural and artistic
movement of modernism[3].
Post modernism is the realization that there is “no beyond” no place “outside
of the forms”[4]. This has been celebrated as an “exhilarating
movement of rapture” for it “defies the system, suspect all totalizing thought
and homogeneity and opens space for the marginal, the different and the others”[5]. It stands for “flux, dispersal, plurality and
localizing[6]. There is a “cluster of styles strategies,
preoccupations, texts, readings, objects and performance[7].
According to Jennifer Wicke, there are more than thirty one flavours of
postmodernism.
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