Posted: Jan 31, 2011 2:18 pm
UndercoverElephant wrote:There can be no post-postmodernism. It is the end of the process of philosophising. It leaves you nowhere to go. Post-modernism is the end of the sequence of ideas which started with Kant. As for Hegel...I'd argue that the first postmodernists were Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, both of whom saw Hegel as stereotypical of what philosophy could no longer be.
I read a book by Jonathan Dollimore, called Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture, and his main theme is that what we call postmodernism is millenia old and didn't start in the 1960s. Take the Bible book Ecclesiastes for instance. It closely resembles postmodern ideas.