This insightful and multifaceted book by the famous British Marxist theorist Perry Anderson offers an examination of the genesis, formation and consequences of the concept of "postmodern." Starting with an exciting intellectual journey into the Spanish-speaking world of the 1930s, it shows changes in the meaning and ways of using this concept until the late 1970s, when J.-F. Liotara and J. Habermas the idea of ​ ​ postmodernism became the subject of the widest discussion. Much of the book's focus is on Fredric Jamieson, whose work represents today's most prominent general postmodern theory. Reconstructing the intellectual and political background of Jamison's interpretation of the present, "The Origins of Postmodern" examines its "aftereffects" in the debate of the 1990s.