The
postmodern theoretical
grounding (also known as
the death of the subject) that takes all
human intent out of
human action and
interaction. Postmodernists are no longer
interested in the
act as done by a person, but as an
independent variable in and of itself valuable to
consider.
This is done because postmodernists claim that human intent is the only real reason that one must ever take the subject into account when studying an act. Because we can never know the true intent of an "actor" and because the intent really doesn't matter in any case (after all, the intent cannot take precidence over the act that occured), there is no need to consider the subject when studying imperical human history.