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Postmodernism: the Enlightenment continued

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Hans Bertens
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Abstract

Postmodernism is often virtually equated with French poststructuralism, and seen as anti-rationalist and anti-humanist, even downright nihilist. However, the idea of difference that is central to much poststructuralist thinking can also be used to construct a model of postmodernism/postmodernity that avoids the endless denials of poststructuralism while allowing the establishment of a grip on the distinctions of our own postmodern period from an earlier modernity.

Type
Mini-Focus: Postmodernism
Information
European Review , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 35 - 43
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 1998

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