Not In a Post-Modern Era

Noticed in the essay "Philosophy in a New Century", collected in the book of that name by John Searle: If by "modernism" is meant the period of systematic rationality and intelligence that began with the Renaissance and reached a high point of self-conscious articulation in the European Enlightenment, then we are not in a post-modern era. On the contrary, modernism has just begun. We are, however,…