The Post-Modern Reader

Jencks, C

ISBN 10: 1854901079 / ISBN 13: 9781854901071

Published by Academy Editions, London, 1992

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4to. A good copy with some scuffing to cover edges and corners and slight soiling to fore edge. Heavy book, may incur additional postage charge. Immediate despatch from the UK.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Post-Modern Reader
• Publisher: Academy Editions, London
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854901079
• ISBN 13: 9781854901071
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: G+
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

This anthology presents the synthesising trend in all its diversity and includes key historical texts by Daniel Bell and Jena-Francois Lyotard as well as seminal papers by Andreas Huyssen, James Collins, Umberto Eco, John Barth, Linda Hutcheon, David Lodge, among others. This book includes: New Culture Theory, Late Modernism as Post-Modernism, Literature, Art, Architecture, Film, Sociology, Politics, Geography, Feminism, Science and Religion.

From the Back Cover

The Post-Modern Reader edited by Charles Jencks An Anthology of a World Movement Post-Modernism has been debated, attacked, and defended for a generation, but only in the last few years has it come into focus as a coherent way of thought embracing all areas of culture. This is the first anthology that presents the synthesising trend in all its diversity, a convergence in architecture and literature, film and cultural theory, sociology, feminism and theology, science and economics. It is however, a synthesis with a difference; it is one which stresses a contested pluralism, the 'dialogic' that underlies the growth of sciences as well as the development of other art forms such as the novel. Some of the key historical texts are reprinted in part - those of Daniel Bell on the post-industrial society and Jean-François Lyotard on the post-modern condition. The new cultural logic of contested pluralism is analysed in seminal papers by Andreas Huyssen and Jim Collins. The fundamental ideas on post-modern literature are defined by Umberto Eco, John Barth and David Lodge and the theories they present challenge the notion of post-modernism as an ultra avant-garde movement and the expression of a consumer society. New Cultural Theory Late Modernism Literature, Art, Architecture and Film Sociology, Politics and Geography Feminism Science and Religion Tito Arecchi, John Barth, Jean Baudrillard, Daniel Bell, Charles Birch, David Bohm, Jim Collins, Norman K Denzin, Umberto Eco, Edward Goldsmith, David Ray Griffin, Jürgen Habermas, David Harvey, Ihab Hassan, Linda Hutcheon, Andreas Huyssen, Charles Jencks, Heinrich Klotz, Hans Küng, David Lodge, Jean-François Lyotard, Robin Murray, Craig Owens, Paolo Portoghesi, Margaret Rose, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Edward W Soja.