The Postmodern Turn (Critical Perspectives) - Softcover

Best, Steven; Kellner, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572302216 ISBN 13: 9781572302211

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1997

Synopsis

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 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

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Best is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. They are also coauthors of The Postmodern Adventure, which continues their exploration of current developments in science, culture, and politics.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

1. The Time of the Posts
2. Paths to the Postmodern: From Kierkegaard through Marx and Nietzsche
3. From the Society of Spectacle to the World of Simulation: Debord and Baudrillard
4. The Postmodern Turn in the Arts: From Architecture to Painting to the Culture of the Image
5. Entropy, Chaos, and Organism in Postmodern Science
6. The Postmodern Paradigm from Theory to Politics

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1572302216
• ISBN 13: 9781572302211
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306