
The aim of the article is to compare the theories of Marshall Berman and Jacques Derrida as examples of modern and postmodern conceptualizations of revolution. The point of this is to show the concurrence of the two proposals in terms of the dismantling of classically understood temporality within them both – against the traces of teleological thinking in both theorists, respectively the vision of the realisation of the collapse of capitalism through bourgeois formation in Berman’s case and the rise of Derrida’s new International. The goal, then, is to see in both projects an attempt to convert social consciousness, thus allowing for a critical analysis of the permanently anachronistic structure of reality. The question of the possibility of transferring the thoughts of both philosophers into the emerging metamodernist discourse is also posed.
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