Postmodernity As A ‘Weak’ Ontological, Epistemological And Historical Experience
Postmodernity As A ‘Weak’ Ontological, Epistemological And Historical Experience

Summary/Abstract: The concept of “modernism”, defining an attitude and an artistic practice which emerged towards the end of the last century, cannot be probed into without discussing the philosophical, historical and socio-cultural background of modernity, a much wider notion, yet one which is closely interrelated to the artistic and literary phenomena in question . Likewise postmodernism, one of the most widespread concepts in contemporary theories of art (and elsewhere) simply cannot be understood — or is even prone to gross misinterpretation — without an understanding of the world that has engendered it : ‘il convient de faire une distinction entre “postmodernite” comme type de condition humaine (existentielle, mais aussi sociale) et “postmodernisme” en tant que courant litteraire (ou culturel, si vous voulez)’.

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