From: Everdell-AT-aol.com Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:43:22 EDT Subject: Re: Post Modernism Alex Liddie asked: <<This time I feel the need more than ever to clarify the difference between Modernism and Postmodernism. How do the rest of you handle this? Appreciate any responses.>> And on 9/20/00, aaron keith writes: <<The inability to describe post modernism has always struck me as disconcerting. I had a grad professor freely admit to the class, "I don't have a working definition of post modernism.">> I took a shot at this a while back. My book is _The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of 20th-Century Thought_ (U. of Chicago Press, 1997, 1998). A shorter version is "100 Years of Modernism" in _Prometheus_ 1(1999). On Postmodernism alone there is a good, short book by Perry Anderson, _The Origins of Postmodernity_ (Verso, 1998). With a word like "modern," sixth-century (AD) Latin for "modus hodiernus" or "style of today," you know there are going to be problems. -Bill Everdell, Brooklyn
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