inverted millenarianism

is a form of millenarianism in which premonitions of the future, catastrophic or redemptive, have been replaced by senses of the end of this or that.

Fredric Jameson describes an 'Inverted millenarianism, in which premonitions of the future, catastrophic or redemptive, have been replaced by senses of the end of this or that'

is the postmodern replacement of ideas of a single catastrophic or redemptive future with the sense of the end of this or that.

premonitions of the future, catastrophic or redemptive, have been replaced by senses of the end of this or that (the end of ideology, art, or social class... the 'crisis' of Leninism, social democracy, or the welfare state, etc., etc.) (Jameson Postmodernism p1)

inverted millenarianism, n.All

inverted millenarianism