RT journal article
T1 Post-Postmodernism: Mapping Out the Zeitgeist of the New Millennium
A1 Bolaño Quintero, Jesús
A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa
K1 postmodernism
K1 post-postmodernism
K1 unfinished project of modernity
K1 Jürgen Habermas
K1 paradigm shift
AB At the turn of the millennium, many theorists questioned the survival of postmodernism and, although it is true that their statementswere not supported by a general consensus, the new century brought with it an intense debate on the subject. With this in mind, theaim of this article is to map out the taxonomy of the alternatives to postmodernism proposed by several theorists during the first decadeof the twenty-first century in order to understand their nature. This article analyses an extensive corpus of theories, to arrive at theconclusion that this period was an interstitial moment of change whose direction seemed to be heading towards the recovery of a muchnuancedunfinished project of modernity, as advocated by Jürgen Habermas. This attempt at debunking postmodern relativism wasthwarted by the social dissatisfaction generated by the bank bailout of 2008 and the ulterior intensification of neoliberalism. However,the subsequent attempts to define the zeitgeist of this cultural phase that followed postmodernism started to dwindle. The desiredrecovery of this unfinished project responds to a need for univocity that, during the 2010s, leads to a hyper-neoliberalism sponsored bypopulism and constructed on a kind of reactionary post-truth.
PB Sociedad Espanola de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular
SN 1989-6328
YR 2022
FD 2022-02
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27171
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27171
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026