Plurality and indeterminacy beliefs long predate the postmodern era

Evidence

Both depict the world as plural and polysémie, but for Gablik such a view is distinctive to Postmodern art. A conception of reality of ultimately Nietzschean provenance which was fairly widespread among the intelligentsia of Mitteleuropa at the end of the last century and which is often present in the work of major Modernist figures such as Hofmannsthal is presented as peculiarly Postmodernist. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 69

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Jameson-reading concern about periodization; also connects to broader debates on whether postmodernism is genuinely new or a re-labeling of late modernism. — connects to: Periodizing postmodernism as a unified system may betray its own logic of difference — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 739; Nominalism operates as a social-existential force in postmodern culture — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 549; Postmodernism discourse must be dated to its specific historical conjuncture — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 597 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Periodizing postmodernism as a unified system may betray its own logic of difference #complicates (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 739
• Postmodernism discourse must be dated to its specific historical conjuncture #qualifies (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 597
• Nominalism operates as a social-existential force in postmodern culture #corroborates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 549