On Postmodernism

A New Face of Modernity [265]]

1. Socially progressive, nationalistic, competitive, technological
2. Cultural critical, self-critical, demystifying basic values of first R modern:
innovation,
rejection of authority of tradition.
experimentalism
antimodern:
dismissal of dogma of progress,
critique of rationality
sense that modern civilization has lost great integrative paradigm, fragmentation of what was once a great unity

denounced as myth of counterculture intended to authorize anti- intellectual celebration of brute, vital energy, ethos of mindless hedonism [266]
Intelligentsia - significant segment still dubious
numerous scholats believe modernism has come to an end or undergoing identity crisis

Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, Charles Olson
1946 Jarrell first American use about Robert Lowell
Toynbee announced new postmodern age of Western history

used by poets, artists, and literary critics
reinterpreted as beginning after World War II
for Toynbee began in mid-1879s
World Wra II = culmination of a demonic modernity
innovative postwar American poets freed postmodern idea from Toynbee's pessimistic anxieties
instead: archaeology of morning

optimistic-apocalyptic interpretation
honorific
postmodernism linked to counterculture

postmodernism in literary and art criticism, especially architecture
othet disciplines
epistemology
social sciences
establishhed internationally
philosophical-historical thrust

philosophical
epistemology
history
philosophy of science
hermeneutics
possible exhaustion of modernism and the avant-garde

On Postmodernism