The postmodern turn
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The postmodern turn
（Critical perspectives）
Guilford Press, c1997
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9781572302204
Description
This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the emergence of a postmodern paradigm in the arts, science, politics, and theory. From the authors of POSTMODERN THEORY, the much-acclaimed introduction to key postmodern thinkers and themes, THE POSTMODERN TURN ranges over diverse intellectual and artistic terrain--from architecture, painting, literature, music, and politics, to the physical and biological sciences. Critically engaging postmodern theory and culture, Steven Best and Douglas Kellner illuminate our momentous transition between a modernist past and a future struggling to define itself. Winner of the Michael Harrington Award for the best book of 1998
Table of Contents
1. The Time of the Posts
2. Paths to the Postmodern: From Kierkegaard through Marx and Nietzsche
3. From the Society of Spectacle to the World of Simulation: Debord and Baudrillard
4. The Postmodern Turn in the Arts: From Architecture to Painting to the Culture of the Image
5. Entropy, Chaos, and Organism in Postmodern Science
6. The Postmodern Paradigm from Theory to Politics
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: pbk ISBN 9781572302211
Description
This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the emergence of a postmodern paradigm in the arts, science, politics, and theory. From the authors of POSTMODERN THEORY, the much-acclaimed introduction to key postmodern thinkers and themes, THE POSTMODERN TURN ranges over diverse intellectual and artistic terrain--from architecture, painting, literature, music, and politics, to the physical and biological sciences. Critically engaging postmodern theory and culture, Steven Best and Douglas Kellner illuminate our momentous transition between a modernist past and a future struggling to define itself. Winner of the Michael Harrington Award for the best book of 1998
Table of Contents
1. The Time of the Posts 2. Paths to the Postmodern: From Kierkegaard through Marx and Nietzsche 3. From the Society of Spectacle to the World of Simulation: Debord and Baudrillard 4. The Postmodern Turn in the Arts: From Architecture to Painting to the Culture of the Image 5. Entropy, Chaos, and Organism in Postmodern Science 6. The Postmodern Paradigm from Theory to Politics
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