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Re: Modernism and Its Endless Returns to the Source, was Re: ...



At 02:26 PM 11/28/01 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote:

I'm not yet convinced that there is enough difference between
"modernism" (which in English Literature I date to the mid-17th century)
and "post-modernism" to justify the use in any sense of the latter term.

Much of postmodernism was a critique of Logos,logocentrism, the word. Fundamentalism is characteristic of religions that are text-based and have a written word to "go back to".








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