- Title Pages
- A Prefatory and Introductory Note
-
1 A Look at Terms and Issues -
2 An Adversarial Image of Modernity -
3 The Postmodern Moment -
4 At the Core of the Postmodernist Challenge to History -
5 Two Versions of the Postmodernist Future -
6 The Project of a Postmodernist Theory of History -
7 Postmodernism's Emergence in an Unlikely Setting -
8 An Early Redefinition of Progress's Destination -
9 Views with Postmodernist Affinities -
10 The First Twentieth-Century Postmodernist: Alexandre Kojève -
11 The Flourishing of Structural Postmodernism (1945–65) -
12 The Fading of Structural Postmodernism and a Triumphal Exception: Francis Fukuyama -
13 Insights and Problems -
14 A Prelude to Poststructuralist Postmodernism -
15 Narrativist History in the Poststructuralist Mode -
16 In the Eye of the Storm: The Poststructuralist Postmodernist Concept of Truth -
17 The Metanarrative Controversy -
18 Poststructuralist Postmodernists on the Individual and the Utility of History -
19 What Kind of Marxism in Postmodernity? -
20 Postmodernism and Feminist History -
Part 5 Concluding Observations - Select Bibliography
- General Works
- Publications Focusing On Structural Postmodernism
- Publications Concerning Poststructuralist Postmodernism
- Poststructuralist Postmodernism: Spur to the New and Challenge to the Established in History
- Index
The Project of a Postmodernist Theory of History
The Project of a Postmodernist Theory of History
- Chapter:
- (p.25) 6 The Project of a Postmodernist Theory of History
- Source:
- On the Future of History
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
The postmodernists' case against the progressive view of history was based on the discrepancy between visionary expectations and reality. Each of the modern philosophies of history—be it that of Condorcet, Hegel, Marx, or others—stipulated an end stage of history, established through the perfection of one or another aspect of the human condition. Their ethical and political motives made postmodernists reaffirm the concept of a proper human condition. However, they have not envisaged a triumphant ending in which progress (change) ended in a state of full rationality (continuity). Instead, structural postmodernists foresaw a postmodernity in which a tightly limited routine life warranted the life of perfect continuity.
Keywords: progressive view, political motives, postmodernists, human condition, postmodernity, continuity
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- Title Pages
- A Prefatory and Introductory Note
-
1 A Look at Terms and Issues -
2 An Adversarial Image of Modernity -
3 The Postmodern Moment -
4 At the Core of the Postmodernist Challenge to History -
5 Two Versions of the Postmodernist Future -
6 The Project of a Postmodernist Theory of History -
7 Postmodernism's Emergence in an Unlikely Setting -
8 An Early Redefinition of Progress's Destination -
9 Views with Postmodernist Affinities -
10 The First Twentieth-Century Postmodernist: Alexandre Kojève -
11 The Flourishing of Structural Postmodernism (1945–65) -
12 The Fading of Structural Postmodernism and a Triumphal Exception: Francis Fukuyama -
13 Insights and Problems -
14 A Prelude to Poststructuralist Postmodernism -
15 Narrativist History in the Poststructuralist Mode -
16 In the Eye of the Storm: The Poststructuralist Postmodernist Concept of Truth -
17 The Metanarrative Controversy -
18 Poststructuralist Postmodernists on the Individual and the Utility of History -
19 What Kind of Marxism in Postmodernity? -
20 Postmodernism and Feminist History -
Part 5 Concluding Observations - Select Bibliography
- General Works
- Publications Focusing On Structural Postmodernism
- Publications Concerning Poststructuralist Postmodernism
- Poststructuralist Postmodernism: Spur to the New and Challenge to the Established in History
- Index
