Post-

This might be another of my typical self-educational revelations that’s literally a matter-of-course fact for those lucky enough to have had classes in this stuff, but:

Is any movement prefixed with “post-” claiming a Hegelian dialectical sublation of whatever’s been moved beyond?

So, an anti-modernist type, who has merely rejected modernism out of hand on moral/aesthetic grounds without fully coming to respectful (if disapproving) terms with it, is essentially different from one who has and has discovered within modernism its own self-negating principle? One operates from an antitheses (romanticism?), the other from what is claimed to be an overcoming of modernism and whatever is claimed to be its antithesis?

Hmmm.

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