ABSTRACT
The ‘post-everything’ syndrome marks the natural terminus of a century-long, mirror-like retum-in-consciousness towards the collective subject of our own Western history: deconstructing this subject’s own psychic constitution, his own societal and cultural creations, his own foundations of knowledge and sense-making, value and identity, the primary focus of attack being the hitherto persuasive and sustaining Enlightenment project: that of a rationally mastered, humane self-emancipation, to be achieved without ‘religion’. Rather than a period or a historical era, ‘postmodernism’ seems to be a condition, a mood, an ethos associated with this endgame.1
