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Saturday, October 24, 2020

MODERNISM POSTMODERNISM 104

 Clark, Our Shadowed Present, Preface.

Interestingly, published by the same university that has now given us the 2020 Nobel Laureates in Economics.

Intellectuals, of whom there are very few (I am pseudo), started out, including even the very acute J C D Clark, above, started out, I think, thinking of Modernism and then Postmodernism, as somehow, analytically, largely discontinuous, substantively distinct, (if nevertheless dialectically self referential and parasitic), and successive, one to another. But he did note that modernists and postmodernists are not as different as they think.

This has been one of the bigger blunders of recent intellectual history in my judgment.

It might be better, though also not ideal, to see what is called Postmodernism as different  transformations, devolutions in some cases, of aspects tenets or stances within Modernism, as it has rolled out from the so called Age of the Democratic Revolution.

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