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Are there are any philosophers who actually identified as postmodernist?

It seems like postmodernism is a catch-all term for pretty much almost any French philosopher who wrote extensively in the 70's. However, I struggle to think of any philosopher who did not reject that label. Usually the people who are grouped under the label "postmodernist" are Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, Felix Guatari, Jean Baudrillard and maybe Jacques Lacan, but if I'm not wrong, all of them rejected this label. And even in the cases of the above philosophers, not only did they reject the label, but even when it comes to other people labeling them as postmodernist there is some controversy. So not only is it hard to find a philosopher who self-identified as postmodernist, it is hard to even find one where there is a large consensus from *others* that they are postmodernist!

With this in mind, two questions arise: Is there anyone who actually identified as postmodernist, and considering all this, does the label even have any value, or is it too general and all-encompassing to the point where it becomes meaningless?
gpt
"Postmodernism" in philosophy isn't any sort of philosophical view or school of thought or set of beliefs. In fact, if anything, it's a number of various projects of critical modern philosophy which took place in 20th century France. Far from any kind of philosophical view *after* modern philosophy, as some people suppose, it's really just modern philosophy that's fairly at home in the broader trends of 20th century philosophy. 

It's in this way that you're not going to find the 'usual suspects' of postmodern philosophy identifying themselves as postmodernists. Rather, they were quite consciously critiquing and expanding various, prior developments in modern philosophy, such as structuralism and phenomenology. 

Even still, their critical projects are quite distinct from each other, and their personal relations vary, and occasionally acrimonious like the fallout between Derrida and Foucault after the former's critique of the latter's *History of Madness*. Even when any of the 'usual suspects' do mention postmodernity, like Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Jameson, these are sociological theses on the current state of postindustial societies and economies, not manifestos or programs of a philosophical view by that name. 

To understand the period of work that people usually have in mind when they talk about postmodernism in philosophy or postmodern philosophy, check out Gary Gutting's *French Philosophy in the 20th Century.*