Author: Steven BestPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349217182
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.
The Postmodern Prince
Author: John SanbonmatsuPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583670904
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A work of political theory with a focus on questions of strategy that examines the politics of the New Left in the 1960s, showing how its expressivism led to political division and also prepared the ground for postmodernism. It shows also how the political economy of academic life in an increasingly commodified society strengthened the basis of postmodernism. Develops a brilliant account of a Marxism that sets itself the task of building a collective political subject capable of challenging capitalism in its moment of global crisis. [publisher web site].
International Postmodernism
Author: Johannes Willem BertensPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027234452
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world. Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation. This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism.
Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory
Author: Carl A. RaschkePublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813933064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
While the academic study of religion has increased almost exponentially in the past fifty years, general theories of religion have been in significant decline. In his new book, Carl Raschke offers the first systematic exploration of how the postmodern philosophical theories of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek have contributed significantly to the development of a theory of religion as a whole. The bold paradigm he uses to articulate the framework for a revolution in religious theory comes from semiotics--namely, the problem of the sign and the "singularity" or "event horizon" from which a sign is generated.
Postmodern Theory
Author: Steven BestPublisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 9780898624182
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In this timely volume, the authors systematically analyze postmodern theory to evaluate its relevance for critical social theory and radical politics today. Best and Kellner provide: * An introduction and critique of the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Laclau and Mouffe, and Jameson, which assess the varying contributions and limitations of postmodern theory * A discussion of postmodern feminist theory and the politics of identity * A systematic study of the origin of the discourse of the postmodern in historical, sociological, cultural, and philosophical studies. The authors claim that while postmodern theory provides insights into contemporary developments, it lacks adequate methodological and political perspectives to provide a critical social theory and radical politics for the present age.
From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society
Author: Krishan KumarPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631185598
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This lucid and insightful study of a crucial area of current debate covers the three theories of contemporary change: the information society, post-Fordism and postmodernity.
Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity
Author: Bryan S. TurnerPublisher: Sage Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book encapsulates the recent debate on the concepts of modernity and postmodernity. Arguments over modernism and its aftermath are traced to their origins in art, architecture and literature. The authors then focus on the contribution of sociology to this cultural dispute through the theories of Weber, Simmel, Habermas, Lyotard and Baudrillard. Throughout, Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity demonstrates the connections between traditional problems of sociological theory and the contemporary debate around modernity.
Back to Reality
Author: Barbara S. HeldPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393701920
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The author critiques postmodern/narrative theory, with its underlying antirealist/constructivist philosophy that the knower makes rather than discovers reality. As an alternative, she introduces readers to the integrative/eclective therapy movement and proposes "modest realism".
Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner
Author: Matthew FlisfederPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501311808
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Provides an introductory explanation of postmodernism and its connection to film theory, and how it can be used to interpret Ridley Scott’s film, Blade Runner.
Postmodern Management Theory
Author: Marta B. CalásPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429776683
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
First published in 1997, this volume asks: when was ‘The Postmodern’ in the History of Management Thought? Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich have chosen this subtitle as entry point to the collection for several reasons. The first, and most evident, is that it prompts us to reflect on the inclusion of a volume on postmodern organization studies within a series of books on the history of management thought. What does such inclusion signal? Are we saying that we are past the postmodern in organization studies? That we have transcended modernity and, beyond, postmodernity? Similar to other social sciences, organization and management studies in the Anglo-American and European academy became impressed by the styles of ‘postmodernism’ and their epistemological companions, ‘poststructuralisms’, during the 1980s. For this collection we have selected twenty two journal articles, published between 1985 and 1996, that we consider emblematic of postmodern endeavours in management thought, as they further our understanding of how ‘truth’ (of any paradigmatic persuasion), is fashioned through particular discourses and other signifying practices. Taken together, these articles address the following questions: What has the field accomplished through attempts at being postmodern? With what consequences? And, where does the field stand now, if it is still/already (going) after ‘the postmodern’? In our view ‘the postmodern’ cannot transcend modern management thought; it is, rather, part of it. Nevertheless, the mere appearance of efforts towards making the field ‘postmodern’ makes it important to account for them in the history of the field. Such is the narrative that we are trying to portray in this volume.
