Postmodernity as the Climax of Modernity: Horizons of the Cultural Futu

Postmodernity as the Climax of Modernity Horizons of the Cultural FutureABSTRACT tending(p) that any society is endowed not only with a denounce of institutions but also with the particular pose of self-reflection and self-description, postmodernity should be viewed as an season representing the climax of modernity and its self-refutation. Parting with traditional society, modernity represents the triumph of power-knowledge, the divorcement between spheres of culture, the global social relations, the new institutions, the change in the misgiving of space-time relations, the cult of the new, and the modernization process. While preserving the institutional set of modernity, the postmodern period casts into doubt the basic thought foundations of classical modernity. The horizons of the emerging ethnic future should be viewed in the light of a positive subtraction of the postmodern reflexive pattern with the legacy of modernity. The final of the 20-th century became an epoch o f the radical reconsideration of the legacy of modernity. Beginning from the fifties, the new postclassical period of ripening of Western culture and society appeared as a specific humanity that was more radically coined by the end of sixties-beginning of seventies when, with the growth of the spot of a radical break with the past, a pattern of postmodernist heathen reflection obtained its definite popularity. Philosophers and historians of culture are intensively debating the question whether the advent of this period marked the end of modernity or its climax break the horizons of the completely unknown future . In any event, the change of the pattern of cultural reflection looks very important and deserves special attention for it simply reveals... ...Baudrillard, Jean. The Illusion of the End. Cambridge Polity Press,1994. Bernstein, Richard. The New Constellation. Cambridge The MIT Press, 1995. Foucault, Michel. Politics. Philosophy. Culture. New York Routledge, 1988. Gid dens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge Polity Press,1995.Habermas, Jurgen. Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne. Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp Verlag,1989.Jameson, Fredric. The Seeds of Time. New York Columbia University Press, 1994.Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Explained. Minneapolis University of Minneapolis Press, 1993. Rorty, Richard. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1992. Vattimo, Gianni. The End of Modernity. Oxford Polity Press, 1991. White, Stephen. semipolitical Theory and Postmodernism. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1992.