Introducing Postmodernism

by Richard Appignanesi

Paperback, 1997

Status

Available

Call number

149.97

Series

Introducing...

Collections

Your library, Philosophy

Publication

Icon Books (1997), Edition: Second Edition, 176 pages

Description

Introducing Postmodernism tracks the idea back to its roots by taking a tour of some of the most extreme and exhilarating events, people and thought of the last hundred years: in art-constructivism, conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol; in politics and history - McCarthy's witch-hunts, feminism, Francis Fukuyama and the Holocaust; in philosophy - the work of Derrida, Baudrillard, Foucault and Heidegger. This book also explores postmodernism's take on today, and the anxious grip of globalization, unpredictable terrorism and unforeseen war that greeted the dawn of t

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LibraryThing member alexgalindo

Concise and informative. It brings the struggles of post-modern thinkers to light, and gives them wholly new meanings to the initiate.
Don't laugh when you read about Derrida and "logocentrism."

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LibraryThing member TheDivineOomba

I'm not sure what I think of this book - I liked the format, but I found that there wasn't enough info to understand the short snippets of post-modernism. I really don't understand it - it seems to be at times contradictory, but maybe I just need to find a different book on the subject. Either way,

I'm glad I read it.

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