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POLEMICAL REFLECTIONS ON POSTMODERNISM
There are at least three varieties of postmodernism: social-cultural, artistic and philosophical. It might seem to be pointless singling out the first of them since the remaining two are also cultural in character. But it is necessary to make the distinction because the latter two refer to changes in the sphere of symbolic culture while the first, which is in all probability the variety of key importance, pertains to the civilizational process taken as a whole. Three different disciplines are concerned with these aspects: the sociology of culture, the theory of art and philosophy itself.
The concept of postmodernism is undoubtedly fashionable. But as so often happens (especially in the humanities) to ...
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