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Author : Victor E. Taylor,Charles E. Winquist
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415185688
V.1 Foundational essays -- V.2 Critical Texts -- V.3 Disciplinary texts: Humanities and social sciences -- V.4 Legal studies, psychoanalytic studies, visual arts and architecture.
Author : Victor E. Taylor,Charles E. Winquist
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0415185696
V.1 Foundational essays -- V.2 Critical Texts -- V.3 Disciplinary texts: Humanities and social sciences -- V.4 Legal studies, psychoanalytic studies, visual arts and architecture.
Author : Jim Powell
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781939994196
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 : Godfrey O. Ozumba, Patrick J. Mendie, Michael Ukah & Christopher A. Udofia (Edited)
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781326912314
The aim of this book is to tell a fuller story of postmodernism as applied to philosophy and a few other related disciplines. The book considers postmodernism from different angles. Apart from examining the nexus between postmodernism and different branches of philosophy. The ideas of leading postmodern thinkers we critically discussed. In an age where students find it very difficult to buy relevant books, this book is a handy reference material because it covers the very essential areas of postmodernism. I must commend the Editors of the book for their editorial astuteness and all the contributors for exhibiting a wonderful and overwhelming enlightenment for philosophy students and students of related disciplines. I strongly recommend the book for these and enlightened readers who seek a deeper knowledge of the subject.
Author : Victor E. Taylor,Charles E. Winquist
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 041518567X
V.1 Foundational essays -- V.2 Critical Texts -- V.3 Disciplinary texts: Humanities and social sciences -- V.4 Legal studies, psychoanalytic studies, visual arts and architecture.
Author : Thomas L Martin,Duke Pesta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317216537
The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary hierarchy of theory over literature, the book takes the novel approach of consulting major Renaissance writers about the values at work in postmodern representations of early modern culture. As criticism seeks new directions and takes new forms, insufficient attention has been paid to the literary and philosophical values won and lost in the exchanges. One result is that the way we understand the logical connections, the literary textures, and the philosophical impulses that make up the literature of writers like Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton has fundamentally changed. Examining theoretical debates now in light of polemical controversies then, the book goes beyond earlier studies in that it systematically examines the effects of these newer critical approaches across their materialist, historicist, deconstructive, and psychoanalytic manifestations. Bringing gravity and focus to this question of critical continuities and discontinuities, each chapter counterposes one major Renaissance voice with a postmodern one to probe these issues and with them the value of the cultural past. As voices on both sides of the historical divide illuminate key differences between the Renaissance and the Postmodern, a critical model emerges from the book to re-engage this period’s humane literature in a contemporary context with intellectual rigor and a renewed sense of cultural enrichment.
Author : Dick Higgins
Publisher : San Diego State University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X030104481
Author : Gary Steiner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231527293
In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under the rubric of postmodernist theory lacks a proper basis for a systematic engagement with ethics. Steiner demonstrates this through a provocative critique of postmodernist approaches to the moral status of animals, set against the background of a broader indictment of postmodernism's failure to establish clear principles for action. He revisits the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, together with recent work by their American interpreters, and shows that the basic terms of postmodern thought are incompatible with definitive claims about the moral status of animals—as well as humans. Steiner also identifies the failures of liberal humanist thought in regards to this same moral dilemma, and he encourages a rethinking of humanist ideas in a way that avoids the anthropocentric limitations of traditional humanist thought. Drawing on the achievements of the Stoics and Kant, he builds on his earlier ideas of cosmic holism and non-anthropocentric cosmopolitanism to arrive at a more concrete foundation for animal rights.
Author : Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1592476422
Author : Johannes Willem Bertens
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415060117
On Postmodenism
Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : Wheatsheaf Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015019002396
What's Wrong with Postmodernism collects seven of Christopher Norris's reviews of recent work in literary theory. Throughout, Norris appears to assume that his readers possess substantial background knowledge in politics and philosophy as well as literary theory. He clearly deserves his reputation as the most philosophically astute of British literary theorists and, considering the abstruseness of the topics under consideration, he also manages to be surprisingly clear. Two purposes permeate the collection. The first is to criticize postmodernism, described as "the upshot of a generalized incredulity with regard to all theories, truth-claims, or 'scientific' notions of system and method." Through discussion of Jean Baudrillard's Selected Writings and Stanley Fish's Doing What Comes Naturally, Norris argues that in addition to its obvious intellectual flaws, postmodernism leads in the political sphere to malaise, cynicism, and apathy. The appeal of postmodernism, he suggests, is due to the failure of literary theories based on Ferdinand de Saussure's structuralism; fortunately, because there are approaches to the philosophy of language other than Saussure's, the postmodernist turn is not irresistible. -- Description from http://bookstore.autonomedia.org (April 16, 2012).
Author : Jeffrey Thomas Nealon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801483395
Looks beyond the apparent fall of deconstruction and shows that its insights have a continuing role to play in postmodernist critical debates. Outlines a postmodern approach based on Derrida's overlooked notion of "double reading"--critical analysis that begins within a traditional meaning but is supplemented by an additional reading that undermines the first. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Steven Best,Douglas Kellner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349217182
An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.
Author : Stuart Sim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136698323
This fully revised third edition of The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism provides the ideal introduction to postmodernist thought. Featuring contributions from a cast of international scholars, the Companion contains 19 detailed essays on major themes and topics along with an A-Z of key terms and concepts. As well as revised essays on philosophy, politics, literature, and more, the first section now contains brand new essays on critical theory, business, gender and the performing arts. The concepts section, too, has been enhanced with new topics ranging from hypermedia to global warming. Students interested in any aspect of postmodernism will continue to find this an indispensable resource.
Author : Patricia Waugh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0340573813
Postmodernism provides a collection of the incessantly cited but nevertheless still widely-scattered critical texts on postmodernism and literary theory. It includes all the "classics" as well as some less obvious, though no less stimulating, choices. An introduction and commentary by Pat Waugh provides essential information and offers a context within which to view the chosen texts.
