A POSTMODERN ENDEAVOR - FROM HISTORY AS REPRESENTATION OF THE PAST TOHISTORICAL THINKING

This paper starts from the postmodern assumption that there is no 'the re, there'. The question that gives the paper its structure concerns t he predicament that this assumption poses for the modern subject histo ry. If we let go of the modernist assumption, then we face the demise of the subject called history. Instead, we have historical thinking, a move to thinking about thinking. The second part of the paper illustr ates the experiencing of postmodern thinking historically through refl exive thinking. I use a Chaplin film to promote dialogue on what is no rmally taken for granted in life. The participants in dialogue explore their own responses to the film, learning to think reflexively as a w ay of being.