AQUINO Journal of Philosophy

This paper interrogates the idea of metamodernism against the background of a claim for the demise of postmodernism, evaluating the extent to which postmodernist perspectives cause an implosion for its ideology, while at the same time setting the background for an elaboration of the metamodernist schema. In placing modernism, postmodernism and metamodernism on a holistic ideological scale, the paper argues for a re-conception of these terms on an ideological as opposed to a historical notation, which aids the perception of all three conceptions as being historically overlapping and existing in the same era. Thus metamodernism is treated as an offshoot of a postmodernist adoption of modernism. Furthermore, the arguments developed attempt to synergize both postmodern and metamodern ideological schemas as fundamentally grounded in an approach which sees philosophical engagements as being an integral aspect of the human culture; while at the same time pushing for a redefinition of knowledge within the subset of a virtual environment (Virtual Epistemology).

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