Spirits Hovering over the Ashes: Legacies of Postmodern Theory (SUNY Series in Post (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture)

Hix, H. L.

ISBN 10: 0791425169 / ISBN 13: 9780791425169

Editore: State University of New York Pre, 1995

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• Titolo: Spirits Hovering over the Ashes: Legacies of Postmodern Theory (SUNY Series in Post (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture)
• Editore: State University of New York Pre
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791425169
• ISBN 13: 9780791425169
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

In a series of topical explorations structured like a sonata, H. L. Hix identifies the consequences of postmodern theory through such issues as grief, freedom, beauty, obscenity, love, and sex to its axiological consequences. A basic motif, postmodernism's distribution of meaning over space rather than time, recurs throughout the chapters, each of which in some way amplifies the book's underlying theme, virtue. The "exposition" of the theme in the first ten chapters receives its "development" in the chapter, "Postmodern Virtue," and its "recapitulation" in the aphorisms of the final chapter.

By choosing names like "deconstruction," postmodern theory postures as that which shakes foundations. But any declaration of an end is also a declaration of a beginning, and Spirits Hovering Over the Ashes pushes past the posturing to ask what foundations postmodern theory has laid.

Informazioni sull?autore

H. L. Hix is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Kansas City Art Institute.