Postmodernism as philosophy and political movement, ending in a Reaganite screed

Review of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault by Stephen R.C. Hicks

I have long been curious about the definitions of modernism and postmodernism. What are they rebelling against? What were their proponents thinking? What if any relevance do the labels have today? This book is a good place to get a grounding in certain aspects of these questions.

According to Hicks, postmodernism started as a philosophical movement, then…