INTERPENETRATIONS: MODERNISM, MODERNITY, POSTMODERNISM AND POSTMODERN. CONCEPTUAL BOUNDARIES
INTERPENETRATIONS: MODERNISM, MODERNITY, POSTMODERNISM AND POSTMODERN. CONCEPTUAL BOUNDARIES

Summary/Abstract: Postmodernism, theoretically, is defined as a cultural, artistic and ideational movement, which appeared in the sixth decade of the 20th century in the United States of America and then spread in Europe. It is certified in architecture, then in literature, philosophy, in the fields of critical theory, art, sociology, political sciences. Postmodernism is characterized, in general, by the exclusion of the new and original, the denial (rejection) of the idea of progress and the return to traditional forms. The central idea of postmodernism resides in the fact that the problem of knowledge is based on everything that is external to the individual. The rhetoric of postmodernism is anti-enlightenment, knowledge is linked to time, space, social position or other factors that intervene in the individual's consciousness in the process of building the points of view that interact in the knowledge process. There are many difficulties in defining the term postmodernism, this trend being the subject of partisan debates and generating as many definitions as there are theorists. The problem of delimiting this current implies the need to report to another direction, developed synchronously, namely modernism. The 20th century is divided, by some historians, into two periods - the modern and the postmodern -, others seeing the two periods as two stages of the same artistic era.

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