Really helpful summary of this emerging term. Definitely getting me closer to purchasing your book heh
Your review of postmodernism has me wondering if it is truly best understood as a paradigm that is independent of not only modernism, but distinct from premodern paradigms. It seems like postmodernism parallels other philosophical turns in the last stages of long-gone empires, when their Gods/first values/principles lose their vitality and hyperrational critique and relativism takes hold among its elites -- which is how I've been told to understand sophistry and stoicism at least.
If this is the case, metamodernism is an attempt to rescue the best of (pre)modernity from the self-satisfied cynicism that dominates late modernity, not necessarily a new paradigm either. Haven't pre-modern thinkers also tried to reconcile the apparent naivete of dead axioms with heady rigor before?
If nothing else you've inspired me to look more into this, so thank you for that.
Really helpful summary of this emerging term. Definitely getting me closer to purchasing your book heh
Your review of postmodernism has me wondering if it is truly best understood as a paradigm that is independent of not only modernism, but distinct from premodern paradigms. It seems like postmodernism parallels other philosophical turns in the last stages of long-gone empires, when their Gods/first values/principles lose their vitality and hyperrational critique and relativism takes hold among its elites -- which is how I've been told to understand sophistry and stoicism at least.
If this is the case, metamodernism is an attempt to rescue the best of (pre)modernity from the self-satisfied cynicism that dominates late modernity, not necessarily a new paradigm either. Haven't pre-modern thinkers also tried to reconcile the apparent naivete of dead axioms with heady rigor before?
If nothing else you've inspired me to look more into this, so thank you for that.