Introducing Postmodernism

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Postmodernism
Here is the new expanded edition ofthe international bestseller Introducing Postmodernism. Has the 21st century resolved the question of 'postmodernism' or are we more than ever ensnared in Its perplexities?
Postmodernism seemed to promise an end to the grim Cold War era of nuclear confrontation and oppressive ideologies. Fukuyama's notoriously proclaimed 'end of history', the triumph of liberal democracy over Communist tyranny, has proved an illusion. We awoke in the anxious ,
grip of globaliution^ unpredictable terrorism and unforeseen war. |
Introducing Postmodernism traces the pedigrees of postmodernism 1
in art, theory, science and history, providing an urgent guide to the present, r
Derrida, Baudrillard, Foucault and many other icons of postmodern |
complexity are brilliantly elucidated by Richard Appignanesi and enlivened f \ i
by the Guardian's 'Biff' cartoonist Chris Garratt I
Introducing Postmodernism remains the best compact commentary... Tovább

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MRToMiiiM^
Postmodernism
Here is the new expanded edition ofthe international bestseller Introducing Postmodernism. Has the 21st century resolved the question of 'postmodernism' or are we more than ever ensnared in Its perplexities?
Postmodernism seemed to promise an end to the grim Cold War era of nuclear confrontation and oppressive ideologies. Fukuyama's notoriously proclaimed 'end of history', the triumph of liberal democracy over Communist tyranny, has proved an illusion. We awoke in the anxious ,
grip of globaliution^ unpredictable terrorism and unforeseen war. |
Introducing Postmodernism traces the pedigrees of postmodernism 1
in art, theory, science and history, providing an urgent guide to the present, r
Derrida, Baudrillard, Foucault and many other icons of postmodern |
complexity are brilliantly elucidated by Richard Appignanesi and enlivened f \ i
by the Guardian's 'Biff' cartoonist Chris Garratt I
Introducing Postmodernism remains the best compact commentary on our [ age of unease. ^ M
Ri^ard Appignanesi is a novelist, editor and publisher, and a Research Fellow at j M King's College London. He Is the originating editor of the Introducing series and has I also written books on Freud and Existentialism in the series.
Chris Garratt is an illustrator and cartoonist whose 'Biff' comic strip appears | weekly In the Guord/on, S
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