Postmodernism’s end-of-history claim betrays a Eurocentric cultural dominance that is itself passing.

Evidence

I don’t think that history is finished and the assertion that it is, which lies at the heart of postmodernism, betrays the inexcusable ethnocentrism—the Eurocentrism—of its high priests. It is their cultural dominance, in the West, across the globe, which is historically at an end. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 734

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Hall inverts the usual charge - he accuses postmodernism’s own end-of-history stance of being Eurocentric, not the modernism postmodernists criticize.
  • XREF: Connects to Fukuyama’s end-of-history thesis and to broader critiques that proclaiming history over erases postcolonial political possibility.