Authors: Christopher Butler
ISBN-13: 9780192802392, ISBN-10: 0192802399
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Christopher Butler is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, and is the author of many books, including Early Modernism (OUP, 1994).
Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged, as they figure in the theory, philosophy, politics, ethics and artwork of the period, and it is shown how they have interacted within a postmodernist culture.
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1 | The rise of postmodernism | 1 |
2 | New ways of seeing the world | 13 |
3 | Politics and identity | 44 |
4 | The culture of postmodernism | 62 |
5 | The 'postmodern condition' | 110 |
References | 129 | |
Further reading | 133 | |
Index | 135 |