Postmodern Theory - Softcover

Best, Steven; Kellner, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898624185 ISBN 13: 9780898624182

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1991

Synopsis

In this timely volume, the authors systematically analyze postmodern theory to evaluate its relevance for critical social theory and radical politics today.

Best and Kellner provide:

* An introduction and critique of the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Laclau and Mouffe, and Jameson, which assess the varying contributions and limitations of postmodern theory

* A discussion of postmodern feminist theory and the politics of identity

* A systematic study of the origin of the discourse of the postmodern in historical, sociological, cultural, and philosophical studies.

The authors claim that while postmodern theory provides insights into contemporary developments, it lacks adequate methodological and political perspectives to provide a critical social theory and radical politics for the present age.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Also from Best and Kellner: The Postmodern Turn, ISBN 1-57230-221-6, 1997.

About the Author:

Steven Best, Ph.D., is a Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. He has published articles on Marx, postmodern theory, Baudrillard, Debord, Jameson, film, television, and cultural theory.
Douglas Kellner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of Karl Korsch: Revolutionary Theory; Marxism and Modernity; Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond; Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film (with Michael Ryan); and Television and the Crisis of Democracy
 

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0898624185
• ISBN 13: 9780898624182
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324