THE ORDER OF THE SUBJECT: REFLECTIONS ON POSTMODERNISM STARTING
FROM SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS. – The advent of the postmodernist shift has characterized
the last thirty years of geographic debate with a vast theoretical production that
has changed the familiar points of reference of the discipline. In particular, postmodernism
appeared as a solution to the hegemonic and homogenizing character of the
knowledge of the modern tradition. This paper will attempt to demonstrate that the objective
of postmodernism has not only not been reached but has been totally contradicted, bringing about by means of will that which modernity had already experienced as rationality.
In the first part some typical traits of postmodernism will be highlighted, mostly
taken from geographic literature or in any case of interest for geographers, which are assimilable
to a subjectivist prospective; the second part will demonstrate that the subjectivism
present in postmodernism is not a vague individualism, but rather the transcendent
modern subjectivism. Subjectivism, the theoretical key of modernity, shows itself to also
be the foundation of postmodernism, a denuncia of the contradiction generated. Given
the multiplicity of authors and sources linked to postmodernism it was decided to limit
the field of analysis to two papers by young Italian authors, which however cover a wide
ranging spectrum of analysis and are significant indicators of the attention being given by
the new generations to the relationship between geography and philosophy
