Modernity and Posmodernity

This article tries to explore the continuities and
discontinuities of postmodemity with modernity. While affirming 
that the boundary between modernity and postmodemity is not
clear and well demarcated, it also tries to show there is no complete
transition from one to another. What is postmodern is neither a 
singular school of thought nor a linear historical period, but the
complex of questions arising from the extolling of reason and
progress the Enlightenment project of modernity. This has affected
philosophical discourses and research projects both of natural
and human sciences. Hence the ambivalent relationship of
between postmodemity with modernity: lack on faith on the claims
of modernity on the one hand, and a heightened fulfdlment of
modernity on the other. Thus the article explores how this
intriguing relationship both of critique and of connivance affect
different spheres of human life including politics and economics
of our society that can be characterized, with a certain measure of
cynicism, as the fetishism of commerce and of spectacle.