Postmodernism for Beginners
Postmodernism for Beginners
Author: Richard Appignanesi
Desc: What connects Marilyn Monroe Disneyworld "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This graphic guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's cultural condition over the last three decades. "Introducing Postmodernism" tracks the idea back to its roots by taking a tour of some of the most extreme and exhilarating events people and thought of the last 100 years: in art - constructivism conceptual art Marcel Duchamp Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol; in politics and history - McCarthy's witch-hunts feminism Francis Fukuyama and the Holocaust; in philosophy - the work of Derrida Baudrillard Foucault and Heidegger. The book also explores postmodernism's take on today and the anxious grip of globalization unpredictable terrorism and unforeseen war that greeted the dawn of the 21st century. Regularly controversial rarely straightforward and seldom easy postmodernism is nonetheless a thrilling intellectual adventure. "Introducing Postmodernism" is the ideal guide.