The critique of Enlightenment predates postmodernism by two centuries.

Evidence

Lyotard calls this thought ‘trivial’; a better word would be ‘old’. What Georg Lukâcs called ‘Romantic anti-capitalism’ had already emerged by the end of the eighteenth century to challenge the Enlightenment and the bourgeois social order which it appeared to sanction in the name of an idealized precapitalist past. … Rejection of the Enlightenment, frequently claiming inspiration from Nietzsche, was notoriously a staple of fin-de-siècle European thought. Perhaps the most celebrated (and complex) recent example of this tradition is Max Horkheimer’s and Theodor Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), where the urge to dominate nature, sanctioned by the philosophes, culminates in the ‘totally administered world’ of late capitalism, in which the repressed returns in the barbarous and irrational form of fascism. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 60

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s central task: refuting Jameson’s claim that incredulity toward metanarratives is distinctively postmodern. This is the chapter’s core historical counterevidence. — connects to: The Postmodern Condition grew from far older aesthetic-political commitments — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 73; Enlightenment thought frames tradition and modernity as opposing binary cultures.; Revisionists inverted the Enlightenment’s progress narrative into one of decay — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 527 (+1 more)
• QUESTION: How does Jameson’s periodization of postmodernism handle the fact that Enlightenment-skepticism was already a developed Romantic tradition? Does he ever engage Lukács’s Romantic anti-capitalism category?

Broader Connections

• The Postmodern Condition grew from far older aesthetic-political commitments #corroborates (0.85) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 73
• Enlightenment thought frames tradition and modernity as opposing binary cultures. #expands (0.80)
• Revisionists inverted the Enlightenment’s progress narrative into one of decay #expands (0.72) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 527