很少有哪个术语像现代主义那样在今天这样沉重地承受暗示、影射和愿望的重负。近来对后现代主义观念的兴趣也没有减轻这种重负。相反,似乎越值得或越有必要弄清楚一种意识的变化或时代的变化——界定一种后现代的条件——确定什么是我们应已放弃或已注意和识破的现代主义就越变得紧迫。全面地探究现代主义的含义比注释一个批评术语更加重要。 Few terms, such as modernism, bear the weight of cues, images and desires so heavily today. Recent interest in postmodernist ideas has not lessened this burden. On the contrary, it seems more or less worthwhile or necessary to ascertain whether a change of consciousness or a change of the times - defining a condition of postmodernity - decides what is the more modernism that we should have given up or have noticed and understood urgent. A thorough exploration of the meaning of modernism is more important than the annotation of a critical term.