This book is much better than his book on Modernism: A very short... It is focused, and well digested (not scattered, like the other one). And I *am* sympathetic, of course, to his rather undisguised hostile attitude towards Postmodernism. But the book *is* a bit superficial -- which is justifiable...
Much of this book unfortunately is unsuccessful. It is crabbed and rather dazed. The author seems often like he is wandering in a long apartment whose lights have gone out..., though he presumably knows more or less the way. In Chapter 4 ("Modernism and Politics") he completely misses the connectio...
I entered into this little book with little grounding, or so I thought.In many respects postmodernism has become a part of how we think about and interact with the greater world. The previous sentence is chock-full of entrapment and presuppositions that are endemic to the postmodernist viewpoint. Al...