“The last few years have been marked by an inverted millenarianism in which premonitions of the future, catastrophic or redemptive, have been replaced by senses of the end of this or that (the end of ideology, art, or social class; the "crisis" of Leninism, social democracy, or the welfare state, etc. , etc. ); taken together, all of these perhaps constitute what is increasingly called postmodernism.”

— from the book