Premodern Suprestitions—A Counter-normative Approach

Abstract

The smooth and even contours that demarcate the modern from the premodern are the conceptual creations of modernity motivated by a deep-rooted myth rather than the logic of objective analysis. In the postmodernist view, the divide actually emerges from the modernist tendency to historicism propped on distinctly marked out binary opposites like man / nature, mind / matter, male / female and so on.