ABSTRACT
Hegel once argued that philosophy arrives when society is in decay, when everything in culture is boring and contradictory. The task of philosophy is thus to capture the dying old world before it fades away. Perhaps we are now in a similar situation with postmodernism, which has become a boring, contradictory, and dying cliché. In this sense, postmodernism, like the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, is losing its aura and becoming a ruin. Only now, in retrospect, we can at last study it.
