Ilya Ilyin’s new book continues his work “Poststructuralism. Deconstructivism. Postmodernism" (Intrada, 1996), composing with it a dilogy about postmodernity. If in the first book the author examines in general terms the conceptual material that served as the basis of postmodernism, then in the new work postmodernism itself is examined in depth and historically in the thirty-year period of its existence. The new book brings to the fore the psychological theories of Jacques Lacan and their perception by postmodern theorists, left deconstructionism, English poststructuralism, theories of “social text” and “cultural criticism”, feminism, the “neo-baroque” of modern culture, new theatrical culture (and, accordingly, theatricality as a property of the modern world), as well as the question of the “beginning and end” of the postmodern era - the problem of its historical boundaries, its exhaustion and the new prospects it opens.