Postmodernism Critical Texts

Author : Victor E. Taylor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415185691
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism: Disciplinary texts : humanities and social sciences written by Victor E. Taylor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415185684
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism: Critical texts written by Victor E. Taylor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jose Lopez
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847141064
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Postmodernism written by Jose Lopez and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What comes after 'postmodernism'? A buzzword which began as an energising, radical critique became, by the 20th Century's end, a byword for fracture, eclecticism, political apathy and intellectual exhaustion. The last few years have seen a growing interest in critical realism as a possible, alternative way of moving forward. The virtues of critical realism lie in its successful provision of a philosophical grounding for the social sciences and humanities and of a methodology applicable to many different fields of analysis. After Postmodernism brings together some of the best-known names in the field to present the first truly interdisciplinary introduction to critical realism. The book presents the reader with a compendium of accessible essays illustrating the connection between meta-theory, theory and substantive research across Sociology, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Politics, Media Studies, Psychology and Science Studies. The flexibility of critical realism is illustrated in the range of topics discussed - ranging from quantum mechanics to cyberspace, to literary theory, nature, smoking, the future fo Marx, the unconscious and, of course, postmodernsim and the future of theory itself. Contributors: Allison Assiter, Ted Benton, Francis Barker, Roy Bhaskar, Jean Bricmont, Sue Clegg, Andrew Collier, Justin Cruickshank, Robert Fine, David Ford, Tim Forsyth, Rom Harre, Pam Higham, Philip Hodgkiss, Jose Lopez, Christopher Norris, Bertell Ollman, Jenneth Parker, Frank Pearce, Douglas V. Porpora, Garry Potter, John Scott, Philip Tew, Charles R Varela, Anthony Woodiwiss

Author : Steven Best
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349217182
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Theory written by Steven Best and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1991-11-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.

Author : John McGowan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801424946
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and Its Critics written by John McGowan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McGowan brings a fresh perspective to ongoing debates about the political implications of postmodernist thought and the relationship of intellectuals to contemporary culture. In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the philosophical context of postmodernism, he considers the kinds of freedom and oppositional politics that are possible under postmodern conditions.

Author : Jim Powell
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1939994195
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism For Beginners written by Jim Powell and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gary Steiner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231527292
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism written by Gary Steiner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christopher Norris
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801841378
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's Wrong with Postmodernism? written by Christopher Norris and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the "postmodern-pragmatist malaise" of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds a continuing critical impulse—an "enlightened or emancipatory interest"—in thinkers like Derrida, de Man, Bhaskar, and Habermas. Offering a provocative reassessment of Derrida's influence on modern thinking, Norris attempts to sever the tie between deconstruction and American literary critics who, he argues, favor endless, playful, polysemic interpretation at the expense of systematic argument. As he explores leftist attempts to arrive at an accommodation with postmodernism, Norris addresses the politics of deconstruction, the issue of men in feminism, Habermas' quarrel with Derrida, narrative theory as a hermeneutic paradigm, musical aesthetics in relation to literary theory, and various aspects of postmodern debate. A chapter on Stanley Fish brings several of these topics together and offers a generalized statement on the function of current criticism.

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198236239
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism written by Paul Crowther and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant's theory of the sublime has become one of the most keenly studied elements in both his own aesthetics and aesthetic theory in general. This book offers a sustained analysis of Kant's theory of the sublime as found throughout his critical philosophy.

Author : Callum G. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317869877
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism for Historians written by Callum G. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism is an essential approach to History. This is the first dedicated primer on postmodernism for the historian. It offers a step-by-step guide to postmodern theory, includes a guide to how historians have applied the theory, and provides a review of why its critics are wrong. In simple and clear language, it takes the reader through the chain of theory that developed in the 20th century to become now, in the early 21st century, the leading stimulant of new forms of research in History. With separate chapters on The Sign, The Discourse, Post/Structuralism, The Text, The Self, and Morality, this book will encourage a new critical awareness of Theory when reading books of History, and when writing essays and dissertations. Armed with the principal ideas of Saussure, Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida, the historians can formulate how to combine empirical History with the excitement of fresh perspectives and new skills, merged in the new moral impetus of the postmodern condition. Designed for the beginner this is the essential postmodern starting point.