![]() ![]() It is René Descartes’ Discours de la méthode/Discourse on the Method (1637), which is both a classic of modern philosophy and the crucial source book of modernity. the founding documents of modern thought. ![]() Thus there also arises one of the biggest difficulties in understanding postmodernism itself.Ī good way to try to meet this need is by rereading, now more carefully than ever, the book to which Stephen Toulmin refers, in Cosmopolis, The Hidden Agenda of Modernity (1990), as one of “. ![]() Yet one can hardly understand “ post-modernism” without adequately understanding what it is supposed to supersede. But few participants in the dialogue between the moderns and the postmoderns can claim to understand exactly what “modernity” is. No text has defined the self-understanding of the present time like Jean-François Lyotard’s La condition postmoderne, Rapport sur le savoir (1979). ![]()
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