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The Greek concept of history was intimately connected with their conception of nature. Their common denominator was the concept of immortality. At the beginning of the modern world, natural sci & history parted company when historical sci's clung to the ancient & medieval sci'fic & philosophical standards. The latest developments in the natural sci's have shown that again, nature & history have much in common. In the modern age their common denominator lies in the concept of process. This intimacy of nature & history is evident when it is seen that man is as capable of `making', or at least starting new natural processes as he is of `making' history. IPSA.

In the early 1920s, a type of postmodernism can be found in Pablo Picasso's & Arnold Schonberg's neoclassical works. Theodor W. Adorno's various attempts to cope with this phenomenon are discussed (eg, Aesthetic Theory, London, 1984). Although some elements of a postmodernist critique of modernism can be found in Adorno, he does not draw conclusions from his critique of modern composers for their infatuation with the material & lack of expression. Three different interpretations of the concept of postmodernism are proposed: (1) the antimodern interpretation that turns the waning of modernism into a pledge for a neoconservative academism; (2) the pluralistic interpretation that sees insight into the availability of different stocks of material as an indifferent eclecticism; & (3) a dialectical continuation of modernism, heir of aestheticist formalism & of the avant-garde protest against it, that pledges a resemanticization of art. Modified AA

Evyatar Friesel: "Atlas of Modern Jewish History". Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990. 159 S., Abb., geb., 25,- Pfund