[PDF] The Idea Of The Postmodern eBook

Author : Hans Bertens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134928653

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At last! Everything you ever wanted to know about postmodernism but were afraid to ask. Hans Bertens' Postmodernism is the first introductory overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witty and accessible guide for the bemused student. In clear and straightforward but always elegant prose, Bertens sets out the interdisciplinary aspects, the critical debates and the key theorists of postmodernism. He also explains, in thoughtful and illuminating language, the relationship between postmodernism and poststructuralism, and that between modernism and postmodernism. An enjoyable and indispensible text for today's student.

Author : Johannes Willem Bertens
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Deconstruction
ISBN : 9780415060127

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On Postmodenism

Author : Hans Bertens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134928661

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Hans Berten's The Idea of the Postmodern is the first introductory historical overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witty and useful guide for today's student. An enjoyable and indispensable text.

Author : John Sanbonmatsu
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1583670904

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A work of political theory with a focus on questions of strategy that examines the politics of the New Left in the 1960s, showing how its expressivism led to political division and also prepared the ground for postmodernism. It shows also how the political economy of academic life in an increasingly commodified society strengthened the basis of postmodernism. Develops a brilliant account of a Marxism that sets itself the task of building a collective political subject capable of challenging capitalism in its moment of global crisis. [publisher web site].

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816611737

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In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Author : Jim Powell
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1939994195

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If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you. Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction to the most profound spiritual and philosophical crisis of our time – the failure of the Enlightenment. Jim Powell takes the position that Postmodernism is a series of “maps” that help people find their way through a changing world. Postmodernism For Beginners features the thoughts of Foucault on power and knowledge, Jameson on mapping the postmodern, Baudrillard on the media, Harvey on time-space compression, Derrida on deconstruction and Deleuze and Guattari on rhizomes. The book also discusses postmodern artifacts such as Madonna, cyberpunk, Buddhist ecology, and teledildonics.

Author : Johannes Willem Bertens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789027234452

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Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world. Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation. This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism.

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 1992-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822310907

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Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Author : Dorothea Olkowski
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253001129

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What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Dorothea E. Olkowski shows that the historic link between science and philosophy, mathematics itself, plays a fundamental role in the development of the worldviews that drive both fields. Focusing on language, its expression of worldview and usage, she develops a phenomenological account of human thought and action to explicate the role of philosophy in the sciences. Olkowski proposes a model of phenomenology, both scientific and philosophical, that helps make sense of reality and composes an ethics for dealing with unpredictability in our world.