Postmodernity extends modernity’s egalitarianism to subaltern others

Evidence

This egalitarianism is a key premise of democratic modernity, though defined in contradiction to the hierarchies of class, race, gender, nation, empire which are also constitutive of modernity. In postmodernity, egalitarianism is extended, through expanded democratization, to the subaltern others of modernity’s dominations. The way in which The Living Theatre pushes egalitarianism to its furthest reach is at once an expression of modernist egalitarian utopianism and of the populist democratization that is its postmodern inheritor. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 506

Categorization

• XREF: Directly answers the book’s earlier claim about universalism and particularity in the Port Huron Statement and phs. — connects to: Real material progress and democratization form the progressive elements of mass culture — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 154; The particular marked body replaces the abstract universal subject in postmodernity — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 549; Postmodernism represents the plebeianization of modernist culture — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 271 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism represents the plebeianization of modernist culture #corroborates (0.72) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 271