The Postmodern Condition grew from far older aesthetic-political commitments

Evidence

The immediate hinterland behind The Postmodern Condition was thus much more intensely charged than the document composed for the Québécois state itself. The ‘report on knowledge’ left the two questions of most abiding concern to Lyotard suspended. What were the implications of postmodernity for art and politics? — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 73

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The critique of Enlightenment predates postmodernism by two centuries. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 60; Jameson’s postmodern problematic predates his adoption of the term by a decade — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 172; Jameson describes postmodern life but rarely calibrates the political effects of movements — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 301 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• So-called postmodern changes merely accentuate long-standing modern Western tendencies #corroborates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 716
• Certain modernist precursors already contained what became postmodern #expands (0.78)