What Is Post-Modernism?

by Charles Jencks

Book Overview

?What is Post-Modernism?' Is it a new world view,or an outgrowth of the Post-Industrial Society? Is it a shift in philosophy, the arts and architecture? In this fourth, entirely revised edition,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854904280
• ISBN13: 9781854904287
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Academy Press
• Length: 81 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.9" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

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This wonderful book has helped me understand the word "post-modern", which has replaced "serendipity" and "oxymoron" as the word I spew out when I am intimidated by how clever other people are and panic.

Learn the term.

From the architect who played a vital role in the formation of "Second Modernism" ("Post-Modernism"), here is a book that explains it all: why Modernism failed and why the polemical "post" was a necessary addition. Anyone who has been baffled by the vague connotations of either term will be enlightened with sufficient examples. This book lives up to its title; it is mandatory for anyone attempting to understand the rise of multiculturalism and self-consciousness. As such, it provides a great "lens" for viewing all works of the 20th century; and although it doesn't focus per se on Modernist literature (cf. Rand's The Fountainhead), WHAT IS POST-MODERNISM crushes any out-dated philosophers under its powerful weight.