modernism, modernity and history, poststructuralism, dialogue, principle of otherness, modernist truth in Bakhtin
Abstract
Through the analysis of the terms "modernity" and "history", de Man’s controversial poststructuralist rejecting of the term "modernism" is actually a redefinition of it to the extent that it can cover also those literary phenomena of the period that seem too realistic to be identified with modernist literature. His comments on modernity as awareness of time, i.e. as experience of immediacy (openness and freedom of a present), coupled with a sense of totality and completeness, coincide with Bakhtin’s views of dialogue or the principle of otherness as the ground of logic belonging to modernist truth.
