Abstract

Modernity has survived postmodernism. ‚Postmodernism‘ as a term has ceased to be modern. Is this justified? My thesis is that we still remain in postmodernism and at the same time have left it behind: While it has been dismissed as a positive idea, its irritating diagnosis of a pluralization of world, text and, particulary, speaking subject preserves its value. From a phenomenological point of view, Roland Barthes’ insistence on the individual body of the writer and reader can be understood as a reaction to the postmodern de-personalized concept of texts – as a challenge to speak with one’s own voice.