VIĐENJE POSTMODERNOGA IZ KRITIKE EAGLETONA
THE POSTMODERN EXPANSE

Summary/Abstract: Interest in the postmodern, in the case of this author, manifests itself predominantly as an interest in problems, and the impossibility of a full and exhaustive definition of the range and scope of this concept which, on the one hand, indicates its distancing from the institutions of modernity and the presence of an awareness of transition into another form of social system in which doubts are expressed concerning the traditional postulates of the truth, intellect and identity; and on the other, uses the same term to designate a form of sovereign culture, certain styles and movements that reflect some of these shifts. In his endeavours to detect and critique the concept of the postmodern, refraining from mere apologetics but also guarding against the dry-as-dust approach of armchair critics, the author uses and quotes the observations and insights of Terry Eagleton’s critical thought which, fearful of postmodernity’s sliding into irrationalism and relativism, is keen not to repudiate its responsibility towards the future and vision of the possibility of a better and more just world.

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