Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781280374883 (1280374888)
Publish date: October 10th 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Reference,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Art,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Social,
Theory
Series: Very Short Introductions
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...
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...