From Post-Modernism to Neo-Modernism

... hierarchy and Manichean dualism of the Cold War era. Both softened their requirements on the subjects of social activity: the “atomized” individual in the former case, and the nation state in the latter case. Vasily Kuznetsov: Imperatives of Neomodernism for the Middle East This softening exposed both the obvious attractiveness of postmodern approaches and their historical narrowness, which was equally obvious. So far no one has been able to replace action with its imitation, policy with ...