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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Simon Malpas |
| ISBN: | 0415280648 9780415280648 0415280656 9780415280655 9780203307120 0203307127 |
| OCLC Number: | 54966261 |
| Description: | vi, 148 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The plurality of the postmodern. Defining the postmodern -- Postmodernisms and postmodernities -- 1. Modernism and postmodernism. Architecture: modernism and postmodernism -- Modernism and postmodernism in art -- Reading the postmodern text: Postmodernism and literature -- Postmodernism as immanent critique -- Postmodernism and postmodernity -- 2. Modernity and postmodernity. The Postmodern Condition: Jean-Francois Lyotard -- The meaning of 'post-' -- Defining modernity -- Jurgen Habermas and the discourse of modernity -- 3. Subjectivity. The modern subject: Descartes, Kant and Wordsworth -- Disrupting subjectivity: Freud, Fanon and Cixous -- The postmodern subject: The inhuman, cyborgs and matrices -- 4. History. Modern history: Hegel and Scott -- Postmodernity and the 'End of History': Fukuyama and Baudrillard -- finite history and history as narrative -- Re-imagining history: postmodern fiction -- 5. Politics. Modern politics and critique: Marx -- postmodernity and 'Late Capialism': Jameson -- Postmodern consumption and simulation: Buadrillard -- Postmodern politics: resistance without foundations. |
| Series Title: | New critical idiom. |
| Responsibility: | Simon Malpas. |
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