File spoon-archives/modernism.archive/modernism_2000/modernism.0009, message 20


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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