Kriza modernosti – nekoliko odgovora od Liotara do Vitgenštajna i Balarda /The Crisis of Modernity – a Few Answers from Lyotard to Wittgenstein and Ballard

Abstract

Once again the crises of modernity becomes actual because of the transitive nature of current situation in contemporary art (the postmodern is still a valid regulatory principle). Comparing classical texts of Lyotard and Habermas, with Rancière’s contemporary perspectives on aesthetics and politics – I will try to recontextualise Lyotard’s thesis on the necessity of rewriting modernity (and the modern) through return to original modernity (ie. avant-garde practices) which brought Lyotard closer to Rancière’s interpretation of the avant-garde. With reference on The Philosophical Investigations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, I will also examine connection between Rancière’s aesthetics and analytic philosophy and – in the case of literature of James Graham Ballard – try to show how critique of the modern works in practice (i.e. how Ballard brought concept into neo-avantgarde literature).