本文旨在討論後現代諸多論述當中，有關所謂「歷史終結」、「藝術終結」和「作者之死」等等議題；尤其要針對這些論述當中有關「反詮釋」、「反方法」等等觀點，就其「修辭」方面來討論一般後現代論述當中，作者的態度和觀念，提出一個較為坦率和平實的觀察和對應，而避免一窩蜂地以誇大不實的渲染、為理論而理論的自圓其說，視而不見的現象觀察，競相以和平面媒體一般的危言聳聽的寫作手法來從事學術研究。

This paper discusses, among many other issues, concepts of the so-called “end of history”, “the end of art” and “the death of the author” that seem so fashionable in postmodern discourse. It concentrates also on the rhetoric and styles of writing of those who advanced these ideas. It also contain a candid analysis of the terms such as “anti-interpretation” and “anti-methodology” that seem to be the basis of these postmodernist thinking. Finally, this paper advocates a plain and easy to approach writing style that is based on more careful and closer observation of the so-called aesthetic experiences and not simply the elaboration of so-called theory or “critical theory”.