Non-western Contemporaneity and the Postmodern

Abstract

The intellectual-spiritual realities of modern life cause a reconsideration of the modernist theories and practices, including those in a postmodern situation. A postmodernist discourse is motivated by the modernity crisis, rejecting its monistic understanding. Under the influence of globalisation, postmodernism extends over “non-Western societies.” The analysis of the postmodern in its relation to the modern, as well as the “non-West” concerning the “West,” assumes the detailed and comparative analysis of “languages,” cultural pools, and the historical processes connected with noted concepts, i.e. differentiating terminology. The postmodernist theorisation of the dichotomy “West-non-West” obviously causes a discursive analysis, in the following contexts in particular: dialogue, an image of the Other, the claim on knowledge, a deconstruction, the subject-object relations, and the economic prism. The postmodern in the non-Western interpretation is characterised by the whole palette of the specific parameters inherent in non-Western modernity and becomes complicated in its ambiguous understanding and self-reflection.