Postmodernism for Beginners - Brossura

Appignanesi, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1874166218 ISBN 13: 9781874166214

Casa editrice: Icon Books, 1995

Riassunto

What on earth is postmodernism? This is a guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept which is supposed to define the human cultural condition at the end of the 20th century. Postmodernism claims that "modernity" has collapsed, that the historical process which began with the enlightenment, industrialism, Darwin, Marx, Freud and so on has exhausted itself and there is no more "future", just an endlessly "contemporary" world full of endlessly contested meanings. This uncertainty has led to a postmodern culture which embodies parody, pastiche and cultural cross-over and claims as its own such diverse phenomena as Andy Warhol, neo-classical architecture and Mickey Mouse! This book takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through structuralism, deconstruction, cyberspace and semiotics in the company of the essential postmodern icons from Adorno and Lacan to Foucault and Umberto Eco.

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• Editore: Icon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1874166218
• ISBN 13: 9781874166214
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176