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Postmodernism is often portrayed as a radical break with the modes of thought, politics and concerns of its intellectual-cultural predecessor: modernism. How do you understand this intellectual-historical duality? You must write about at least three of the following thinkers in your assessment of the modern era: Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant, Georg Simmel, Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nietzsche – “good and evil” & “good and Bad”
Kant – “what is enlightenment”
Freud – civilization and discontent pg 1-34
Freud – the uncanny
Simmel – “the metropolis and mental life”
Marx – “the fetishism of the commodity and it’s secret” Pages 163-177 (in the book capital volume one; a critique of political economy) (PDF To big to download here!!)
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