Practice question · Estimate
Estimate how many years separate Lyotard’s La condition postmoderne and Bauman’s Liquid Modernity.
Estimate on a scale from 5 years (5) to 60 years (60).
Hints
- Both dates appear in this lesson; subtract one from the other.
- One is 1979 and the other 2000.
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21 (answers within ±4 count)
Why
About 21 years. Two decades of argument separate the announcement of a rupture from a diagnosis that keeps the word modernity and changes its adjective, which is a reasonable summary of where the debate settled: the observations survived, the claim of a clean break largely did not.
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