Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism

by Gary Steiner

Book Overview

In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under the rubric of postmodernist theory lacks a proper basis for a systematic engagement with ethics.

Steiner demonstrates this through a provocative critique of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231153430
• ISBN13: 9780231153430
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"