The Postmodern turn / Steven Best, Douglas Kellner.

Author/creator Best, Steven
Other author Kellner, Douglas, 1943-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Guilford Press, 1997.
Descriptionxiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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SeriesCritical perspectives
Critical perspectives (New York, N.Y.) ^A376354
Contents Time of the posts -- Paths to Postmodern: Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche -- From the society of the spectacle to the realm of stimulation: Debord, Baudrillard, and Postmodernity -- Postmodernism in the arts: pastiche, implosion and the popular -- Entropy, chaos, and organism in Postmodern science -- Between the modern and the Postmodern: paradigm shifts in theory and politics.
Subject 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/m-/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. The Postmodern Turn is essential reading for anyone interested in the analysis of contemporary society, and serves as an ideal text for courses in social theory, cultural studies, architecture, art history, science studies, intellectual history, and contemporary theory.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97015234
ISBN1572302208
ISBN9781572302204
ISBN1572302216 (pbk.)
ISBN9781572302211 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks HM73 .B468 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold