Re-Writing Modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5016290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean-François Lyotard (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 3 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3685193 |
| OpenAlex | W2331578363 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
First of all let me point out how much indebted I am to Kathy Woodward, Carol Tenneson, Sydney Levy, and Mary Lydon for having suggested to me (or even imposed on me) the title Re-writing Modernity. It is better than any rubric such as Postmodernity, Postmodernism, Postmodern, and the like. The improvement lies in a double displacement: a lexical commutation from post- to re-; and a syntactical one dealing with the transfer of the prefix which is now connected with writing rather than with modernity. This double transference implies two leading directions. First, it makes immaterial a periodization of cultural history in terms of pre- and post-, of before and after, and questions the position of the now, the present from which we claim to have a right view over the successive periods of our history. Being an old, continental philosopher, I am reminded of the analysis of time by Aristotle in the Fourth Book of his Physics.: impossible to determine a difference between what is gone (prdteron, previous) and what is up, (huisteron, further) without referring the stream of events to a now (a nun). But, in one and the same moment, it is also impossible to take hold of such a now, which is always vanishing, drawn along by what we call the flood of consciousness, life, beings, events, and the like, so that it is once and for all both and for grasping something like an identifiable Too late designates an excess in the vanishing (going off), too soon refers to an excess in the coming up. An excess with regard to what? With regard to identity, to the project of grasping and recognizing a being here and now
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Literature · Modernity · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Globalization and Cultural Identity · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |