- 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
Postmodernism's Emergence in an Unlikely Setting
Postmodernism's Emergence in an Unlikely Setting
- Chapter:
- (p.29) 7 Postmodernism's Emergence in an Unlikely Setting
- Source:
- On the Future of History
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
A search for postmodernist traces in Western historiography between 1850 and 1914 seemed to be an unpromising endeavor. In these years, modernity, both in theory and the praxis of life, radiated an unprecedented confidence that stifled doubts about progress. European societies expanded their economic base by industrialization within the framework of capitalism, spread their political power across the globe, and enhanced the comfort and health of many of their citizens. The United States fulfilled its “manifest destiny” in becoming a truly continental nation—one prosperous and powerful. The theoreticians of progress could paint the expectations for the future only in bright colors. In the contemporary historical nexus, the future could still be seen as free of the past's vicissitudes. Even most prominent critics of the Enlightenment's rationalist version of progress—such as the Marxists—pitted against it yet another version of a radiant future.
Keywords: postmodernism, Western historiography, modernity, European societies, industrialization, Marxists
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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
