Essays in Postmodern Culture

This collection of essays explores the different ways in which postmodernism is expressed in the world today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087526
• ISBN13: 9780195087529
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.9" x 1.2" x 10.1"

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essays in postmodern culture

Albeit the individual essays reflect not a unified singular attitudinal and thematic concensus about what constitutes postmodernism or its culture, but rather, reveal a cuttingly divergent set of opinions, the essays themselves nonetheless are brilliant and piercingly insightful. I would probably argue (I say probably because I still don't have a clear idea of what Postmodernism is in its tenets) that the divergence reflects not an inability of the essayists to come to a consensus, rather that obtaining any consensus is not at all a concern. As far as I can tell, Postmodernism, unlike Modernism, attempts to reflect on society without trying to understand from it any underlying truth characteristic of Modernism. If this is the case then, the essays most certainly fit into this mold, proferring a wide spectrum of individual aspects of contemporary culture that evinces a general state of life as we know it now.