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Postmodernism and postmodernity: What do these terms mean and why are they successful?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Douwe Fokkema
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Abstract

The various meanings of the terms ‘postmodernism’ and ‘postmodernity’ are traced; in various European languages these mean different things. Postmodernist discussion in the various arts is not synchronous. Postmodernism can be seen as the cultural expression of the times we supposedly live in, but are the achievements of modernity gone for ever?

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Mini-Focus: Postmodernism
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European Review , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 25 - 33
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Copyright © Academia Europaea 1998

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