Introducing Postmodernism (Beginners)

Richard Appignanesi, Chris Garratt, Ziauddin Sardar, Patrick Curry

ISBN 10: 1874166218 / ISBN 13: 9781874166214

Verlag: Totem Books January 1999, 1999

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Inhaltsangabe:

What on earth is postmodernism? This is a guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept which is supposed to define the human cultural condition at the end of the 20th century. Postmodernism claims that "modernity" has collapsed, that the historical process which began with the enlightenment, industrialism, Darwin, Marx, Freud and so on has exhausted itself and there is no more "future", just an endlessly "contemporary" world full of endlessly contested meanings. This uncertainty has led to a postmodern culture which embodies parody, pastiche and cultural cross-over and claims as its own such diverse phenomena as Andy Warhol, neo-classical architecture and Mickey Mouse! This book takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through structuralism, deconstruction, cyberspace and semiotics in the company of the essential postmodern icons from Adorno and Lacan to Foucault and Umberto Eco.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Introducing Postmodernism (Beginners)
Verlag: Totem Books January 1999
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Trade Paperback
Zustand: Used Good