Postmodernism has come under criticism for a number of reasons:

·         It’s been likened to moral relativism in terms of its rejection of universal values and general codes of behaviour.  By favouring subjective truths over for example meta- narratives it can lead itself to the belief there is no objective moral standard and moral truth’s vary from one group to another. Arguably Postmodernism is a less specific form of moral relativism.

·         It’s been criticised as a meaningless theory that doesn’t contribute at all to analytical or empirical knowledge- though this links in with the idea of subjective truths where to some theorist it may be this but to other not.

·         Jameson had critiques Postmodernism in terms of a describing the era as a crisis in historicity-"there no longer does seem to be any organic relationship between the American history we learn from schoolbooks and the lived experience of the current, multinational, high-rise, stagflated city of the newspapers and of our own everyday life" .

·         Postmodernism is hypocritical in that it is a large theory that dismisses all other theories- thus beocming meaningless itself.

·         It’s ideologically contradictory and ambivalent.