期刊名称：Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy
印刷版ISSN：2067-3655
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：429-434
语种：English
出版社：Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
摘要：In the contemporary vocabulary, the term “postmodern” has a central significance. It became a kind of cultural extension, a general milieu favourable for polemics. Postmodernism was theorized in many fields, such as architecture, philosophy, art, literature, geography, but its wide use does not mean that it is also strictly defined or general accepted. Postmodernism is rather a paradoxical concept, with many contradictions that cause hermeneutic difficulties. We can’t talk about a unitary theory, a set of principles and postulates or a unique definition, albeit there are some thinkers who consider that besides differences, the disparate trajectories of postmodern meet in a consistent paradigm. Anyhow, the identity of this phenomenon is still controversial and a lot of interrogations are open: is postmodernism a cultural movement, an academic field or just an evanescent fashion/trend? Does it represent an overcoming of the modern perspective, a radicalization, a negation or just a part of it? After it celebrated several deaths, has postmodernism now become obsolete? Is postmodernism replaced by post postmodernism, transmodernism or other currents.
关键词：postmodern turn; leading postmodern thinkers; breadth of postmodern thought; interpretation; modernism
