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Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Sat Jul 7 08:28:35 PDT 2001


Christian Gregory>...Another problem is that postmodernism is supposed to orginate in the late 60's and early 70's, which kinda presents a problem for his arguing about globalization deriving from events in the 50s (as above).

Postmodernism w/o the "ism", first use I've seen among lit critters, Irving Howe in 1959, in Partisan Review. ... while even the very origin of the term "postmodern" has been shrouded in veils of misunderstanding: The incredible Irving Howe seems to have coined it in 1959 ... www.feedmag.com/deepread/dr292_meta6.html JULIAN LEVINSON Ph.D., Columbia, 2000, "The Tragic Flaw of Irving Howe" (Prooftexts, 1999) http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/faculty/fibs.htm Schulman, Jason, Howe Little They Understand (R), 27:185. http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/indexaut.htm#s First use of "neo-conservatism" among the same set, Dwight Macdonald, early 50's. Michael Pugliese



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