ABSTRACT
The basic experience that the great horizons have collapsed, or at least that the people have left them behind, has, like every other feature of postmodernity, a Janus face. The campaign against ethnocentricity has been a major campaign for postmodernity. A further aspect of “being after” can be likened to the ending of a long war between the modern and premodern on the issue of the autonomy of art. Temporality of a new kind has been emerging from the postmodernist termination of the Project Kunst. Posthistoire is the dominant temporal experience of postmodernity. The debacle of historicity has created a strong prevalence of the present tense in postmodernity. The spirit of postmodernity turns irreverently against a sacralization of education in the form of the cult of catharsis. Armistice of a kind can be detected in the permanently strained relationship between the arts and the culture industry.
