Postmodernity’s signature multiplicity was already common among 1900s Modernist thinkers

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

If Rushdie is a postmodernist at all, he is so precisely in the sense that his intellectual and artistic formation is essentially modernist, but there are distinct articulations and emphases in which he clearly exceeds that basic formation. I am reminded here of those passages in Lyotard where he argues that postmodernism is a set of tendencies within Late Modernism itself, which distinguishes itself primarily by celebrating human inability to experience reality as a totality, over and beyond its fragments. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 236 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Certain modernist precursors already contained what became postmodern; Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 236; Two further positions reject the modern-postmodern break, dissolving postmodernism into modernism (+2 more)

Related

• Plurality and indeterminacy beliefs long predate the postmodern era (similarity 0.89)
• Postmodern multiplicity claims were already the idiom of 1905 Mitteleuropa Modernism (similarity 0.89)
• Postmodernism discourse must be dated to its specific historical conjuncture (similarity 0.83)
• Postmodernism’s popularity stems partly from its definitional obscurity (similarity 0.82)
• Postmodernism’s self-definition depends on an inadequate account of what it opposes. (similarity 0.82)
• Periodizing postmodernism as a unified system may betray its own logic of difference (similarity 0.81)
• Postmodernism cannot be defined once and settled; it must be reworked each use (similarity 0.81)
• Defining Postmodernism as internal to Modernism abandons its periodizing claim (similarity 0.81)
• Locating Postmodernism within Modernism severs its link to stages of social development (similarity 0.81)
• Postmodernism fuses changes in the arts with poststructuralist philosophy (similarity 0.81)
• Modernism is a coherent artistic category despite skeptics who call it empty (similarity 0.81)
• Everyday metropolitan culture anticipated postmodernism before its intellectual articulation (similarity 0.80)
• Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor (similarity 0.80)
• Postmodernism is best treated as a historical condition, not an ideas set. (similarity 0.80)
• So-called postmodern trends merely continue capitalist processes begun under modernism (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Certain modernist precursors already contained what became postmodern #corroborates (1.00)
• Plurality and indeterminacy beliefs long predate the postmodern era #expands (0.85) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 69
• Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor #qualifies (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 236
• Two further positions reject the modern-postmodern break, dissolving postmodernism into modernism #corroborates (0.75)
• High and mass culture interpenetration predates postmodernism by decades #corroborates (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 570