PostmodernismThe term 'postmodernism' is ubiquitous in current cultural debate, but its meanings are difficult to grasp. This is consistent with the deconstructed, fragmented, fleeting versions of the world to which postmodernist cultural commentators allude. This book provides an excellent survey of the main areas of discourse and issues within postmodernism. |
Contents
Defining the Postmodern | 7 |
Complexity and the Sublime | 19 |
From PostStructuralism to Postmodernity | 27 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adorno aesthetic allegory analysis architecture argue argument artists autonomy avant-garde Barthes Baudrillard become bricolage century classical age College concept Conceptual Art concerned contemporary Critical Theory critique culture death deconstruction Derrida desire dialectic discourse dominant Enlightenment essay example experience Foucault fragmentation Frankfurt School French Freud function gaze Greenberg's Habermas Hamlet human idea ideology images implications institution intellectual Jean-François Lyotard Jürgen Habermas Kant language Lévi-Strauss Marxism mass media means modern modernist narrative notion object opposition Owens painting parody pastiche phenomenological phenomenology Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe philosophy political pop music position possible post-structuralism post-structuralist postmodern architecture Postmodern Condition postmodernist primacy privileged problem produce proper name psychoanalysis question reality recent representation resistance Roussel sense sexual difference simulation social society space stage structuralist structure sublime television theatrical things thinkers thought tion totally tradition truth universal vision visual arts writing