/lit/ - Literature

>>10262390

That is the most bland, stupid, non-definition I've seen.

You're telling me the term postmodern refers to an era that differs from the rest of history by a matter of degree?

Were we postmodern right after the war but modern in July 1945?

I don't think Peterson (or anybody for that matter) uses the term this way, to refer to a stage of history characterized by a higher degree of technology. It's almost always used to refer to a specific development in idealism, typically synonymous with moral relativism or certain chunks of late 20th century philosophy (especially in France).

I don't understand how you can even have a "postmodern thinker" given your ridiculous definition. Is a postmodern thinker a thinker born after the development of interstate highways, radio etc?

I'm aware Habermas and Foucault did their major work in the postwar period. Is this why you have described them as "postmodernist" ?