Postmodernism. What moment? (Angelaki Humanities) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719073081 ISBN 13: 9780719073083

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field. The authors look back on their own contributions to the postmodernism debate of the 1980s and 1990s and address the ways in which the contemporary world and their own concerns have developed, and the continuing validity or otherwise of ‘postmodern’ as a master designator of the contemporary.

Following a substantial introductory survey, the 15 compact articles include contributions from: Linda Hutcheon, Robert Venturi, Zygmunt Bauman, Douglas Kellner, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Lawrence Grossberg, Gianni Vattimo and Ernesto Laclau. The collection provides an important testimonial source for researchers interested in contemporary theoretical developments, whether in the arts and humanities or the social sciences. It will be a useful text for teachers leading classes with a focus on postwar intellectual history and cultural theory.

About this title

About the Author:

Pelagia Goulimari is a member of the English Faculty of Oxford University and General Editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities

Review:

"This representative collection of thoughts on postmodernism or postmodernity allows us to observe the fortunes and the multiple trajectories of an idea..."--Frederic Jameson, from the Postscript

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0719073081
• ISBN 13: 9780719073083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Goulimari Pelagia