From Modernism to Postmodernism (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557866031 ISBN 13: 9781557866035

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1996

Synopsis

From Modernism to Postmodernism is the most authoritative and comprehensive collection of the key classic and contemporary readings of postmodernity and modernity.

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Book Description:

This revised and expanded second edition of Cahoone's classic anthology provides an unparalleled collection of the essential readings in modernism and postmodernism. The anthology puts contemporary debate in the context of the criticism of modernity since the seventeenth century, thus allowing the reader to appreciate postmodernism by first understanding the development of modernity.Chronologically and thematically arranged, this volume's breadth and depth of coverage ensures that it will be an indispensable and multidisciplinary resource in philosophy, literature, cultural studies, social theory, and religious studies.

From the Back Cover:

From Modernism to Postmodernism is the most authoritative and comprehensive collection of the key classic and contemporary readings of postmodernity and modernity.

Motivated by the assumption that students cannot appreciate postmodernism without first understanding the development of modernity, this anthology puts contemporary debate in the context of the criticism of modernity since the seventeenth century. Selected authors include: Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, Burke, Hegel, Marx, Peirce, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Huesserl, Wittgenstein, Adorno, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Irigaray, Rorty, and MacIntyre, amongst others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1557866031
• ISBN 13: 9781557866035
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 748
• Editor: Cahoone Lawrence E.