Abstract

The need to redefine and discuss the potentiality of the reason against postmodernist theories leads to a hermeneutical analysis of the philosophical subject. A hermeneutical interpretation of several modern philosophers, such as Leibniz, can show that the topics such as subject and reason, far from having lost their reliability, are still quite useful in criticizing the set of ideas offered by the postmodernist thought. Is there something after postmodernism that could be called post-postmodernism? Is that but modernity itself? Finally, is postmodernism but a typically modern phenomenon?