Pre-modernism, modernism, postmodernism and metamodernism
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These are all hard to pin down. They all refer to broad styles/periods of thought and discourse, particularly in the arts and humanities. They tend to take on different shades depending on which area of academia or society you’re talking about. And different people take different views on how these periods should be divided up and labelled.
Modernism usually includes ideas that were popular during roughly the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and postmodernism usually includes ideas that were popular in roughly the latter half of the 20th century. The terms “premodernism” and “metamodernism” are much less widely accepted, but usually refer to things that came before modernism and after postmodernism, respectively.
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