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Jameson categorizes a variety of features of the postmodern. One is the elision of the distinction between high culture and mass culture. [156] Also, because of our loss of a unified "bourgeois ego", subjectivity is less focused, and we experience what he terms a "waning of the affect", an emotional disengagement from the social world. [157]
Postmodernity (post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is the economic or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. [nb 1] Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century – in the 1980s or early 1990s – and that it was replaced by postmodernity, and still others would extend modernity to cover the developments denoted by ...
Late 19th and early 20th century playwrights whose work influenced the aesthetics of postmodernism include August Strindberg, [9] Luigi Pirandello, [9] and Bertolt Brecht. [10] Another precursor to postmodernism was Dadaism , which challenged the authority of the artist and highlighted elements of chance, whim, parody, and irony. [ 11 ]
Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed during the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment.
The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: pp. 1–54. Theories of the Postmodern: 55–66. Surrealism Without the Unconscious: 67–96. Spatial Equivalents in the World System: 97–129. Reading and the Division of Labor: 131–153. Utopianism After the End of Utopia: 154–180. Immanence and Nominalism in Postmodern Theoretical Discourse: 181–259.
A Universal History of Infamy (1935) by Jorge Luis Borges [1] At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien [ 2 ] The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien [ 3 ]
The return to the traditional art forms of sculpture and painting in the late 1970s and early 1980s seen in the work of neo-expressionist artists such as Georg Baselitz and Julian Schnabel has been described as a postmodern tendency, [52] and one of the first coherent movements to emerge in the postmodern era. [53]
The basic features of what is now called postmodernism can be found as early as the 1940s, most notably in the work of Jorge Luis Borges. [5] However, most scholars today would agree that postmodernism began to compete with modernism in the late 1950s and gained ascendancy over it in the 1960s. [6]