What Berman calls postmodern is only an accentuation of modern tendencies

Evidence

I don’t think that what Berman is describing is a new epoch but rather the accentuation of certain important tendencies in the culture of the overdeveloped “West” which, if we understand the complex histories of modernism properly, have been in play in a highly uneven way since modernism emerged. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 716

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 236; So-called postmodern changes merely accentuate long-standing modern Western tendencies — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 716; Certain modernist precursors already contained what became postmodern — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 661 (+3 more)
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postmodernism is a tendency within late modernism, not its successor — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 236; So-called postmodern changes merely accentuate long-standing modern Western tendencies — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 716; Certain modernist precursors already contained what became postmodern — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 661 (+3 more)

Broader Connections