RW: Toward the beginning of your book, Going Public, you refer to “the period of modernity” as “the period in which we still live.”[3] You roughly date it, at least theoretically and philosophically, as coinciding with Kant’s Critique of Judgment (1790). The obvious political correlate to this would be 1789 and the French Revolution. Are we still — or were we ever — postmodern? If so, how does this relate to modernity, “the period in which we still live”?
Might postmodernity perhaps be reaching an end?
BG: Well, when I speak about postmodernity in my writings, it’s because other people use this word and believe themselves to have a certainunderstanding about what it means. Personally, I don’t think any such transition from modernity to postmodernity ever happened.Postmodernity has never really had any meaning as a concept. (here)
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BG: Well, when I speak about postmodernity in my writings, it’s because other people use this word and believe themselves to have a certainunderstanding about what it means. Personally, I don’t think any such transition from modernity to postmodernity ever happened.Postmodernity has never really had any meaning as a concept. (here)
- bill 7-13-2014 7:20 pm