The Ideology of Postmodernity

It is argued that postmodernity is simply the most recent ideology or modernity, & that the postmodern condition represents a semblance of intellectual culture & spirituality in a world increasingly dominated by the fetishism of things & images. As a radicalized version of late modernity...

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Published in:Theory, culture & society culture & society, 1992-05, Vol.9 (2), p.55-65
Main Author: Mongardini, Carlo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ideologies
Ideology
Modernity
Postmodernism
Theoretical Problems
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Summary:It is argued that postmodernity is simply the most recent ideology or modernity, & that the postmodern condition represents a semblance of intellectual culture & spirituality in a world increasingly dominated by the fetishism of things & images. As a radicalized version of late modernity, postmodernity reaffirms the aesthetic justification for life & dissolves not only the old institutional structures of modernity, but morality & history as well. The implications of postmodernity's abandonment of values, of totalizing systems of thought, & of the idea of progress are discussed, & it concluded that postmodernity sublimates the psychological stress & spiritual unease of modernity. Postmodernity's nefariousness can be countered only by reestablishing historical consciousness. 17 References. W. Howard
ISSN:0263-2764
1460-3616
DOI:10.1177/026327692009002003