Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:18:53 -0800 Subject: Re: PMC: What is Postmodernism?: A Demand M. Collette wrote: > When Lyotard mentions "Aufklarung" on page 72 I am > guessing he is > referring to an aspect of Modernism. Does any one have > an English > translation of this word and how it applies? I think Aufklarung means "Enlightenment." It was the Enlightenment (18th century philosophy in the western world) that was the wester culture's general rejection of pre-modernism (superstitions and for some religious faith) and allowed modernism (a faith in the dream of science) to flower. ..Lois Shawver
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