The Postmodern Turn |
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| Author:
| Best, Steven
Kellner, Douglas |
| Series title: | Critical Perspectives Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57230-221-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1997 |
| Publisher: | Guilford Publications
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the emergence of a postmodern paradigm in the arts, science, politics, and theory. From the authors of POSTMODERN THEORY, the much-acclaimed introduction to key postmodern thinkers and themes, THE POSTMODERN TURN ranges over diverse intellectual and artistic terrain--from architecture, painting, literature, music, and politics, to the physical and biological sciences. Critically engaging postmodern theory and culture, Steven Best and...
More DescriptionThis book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the emergence of a postmodern paradigm in the arts, science, politics, and theory. From the authors of POSTMODERN THEORY, the much-acclaimed introduction to key postmodern thinkers and themes, THE POSTMODERN TURN ranges over diverse intellectual and artistic terrain--from architecture, painting, literature, music, and politics, to the physical and biological sciences. Critically engaging postmodern theory and culture, Steven Best and Douglas Kellner illuminate our momentous transition between a modernist past and a future struggling to define itself.
Winner of the Michael Harrington Award for the best book of 1998