What is Metamodernism? - The Living Philosophy

Metamodernism might be the most important idea you encounter this year. In a world that is growing increasingly fractured and complex, Metamodernism is a worldview that offers a way forward. In last week’s article we looked at the difference between the worldviews of Modernity and Postmodernity. Each of these evolved in response to particular historical and cultural trends. Modernity, as we saw, was the cultural phase that was at its height in the 19th– and early 20th-centuries. Postmodernity emerged in the 1960s and is the dominant cultural perspective in the 21st-century. Our current cultural landscape is polarised along these battlelines. With only these two worldviews to choose from it seems that society is doomed to fracture. But this is where Metamodernism comes in. Metamodernism has been emerging in the past couple of decades and it offers a way past the gridlock. The Meta in metamodernism comes the ancient Greek word Metaxis used by Plato and Plotinus to capture the sense of in

Metamodernism might be the most important idea you encounter this year. In a world that is growing increasingly fractured and complex, Metamodernism is a worldview that offers a way forward. In last week’s article we looked at the difference between the worldviews of Modernity and Postmodernity. Each of these evolved in response to particular historical and cultural trends. Modernity, as we saw, was the cultural phase that was at its height in the 19th– and early 20th-centuries. Postmodernity emerged in the 1960s and is the dominant cultural perspective in the 21st-century. Our current cultura