ABSTRACT
A lot has been written in the last years about post—modernity or postmodernism, but few have paid attention to the few scholars or thinkers of Continental Europe that have expressed profound doubts about the prevailing scholarship; first, because Continental Europe is not the leading culture anymore, the English-medium or Anglo-saxon world has become the driving force nowadays; seconly, because this kind of critical thinking is disturbing (Barcellona, 1996; Touraine, 1993). What we call postmodernism may be seen as totally modern yet; it is still part of the model of civilization that we may call modernity. It is just the last phase of the modern age, but it is still part of it. And to realise this it is enough to do something that few Westerners try: to go to other civilizations, and from these other world views, such as India, for instance, we may conclude that postmodernists are still modern; they still share the main features of modern Western civilization.
