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No doubt to the surprise of many, the twenty-first century has seen fierce intellectual debates about the nature of the post-modern. At a time when academic and intellectual fashions evolve almost as quickly as the iPhone, a term first coined in the 1960s and 1970s has had a surprisingly long shelf life. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. In his fine book Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction, published in 2003, the aesthetic theorist Christopher Butler prophesized—with some relish—that we’d seen the end of post-modernity.
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McManus, M. (2022). Introduction: The Politics of Post-modernity. In: The Emergence of Post-modernity at the Intersection of Liberalism, Capitalism, and Secularism. Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98970-5_1
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