The truth about the truth : de-confusing and re-constructing the postmodern world / edited by Walter Truett Anderson.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Putnam, [1995]
  • ©1995
Description
x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    "One can rarely read or hear commentary on art, popular culture, society, literature, or politics these days without being confronted by the mysterious term 'postmodern.' Unlike any other artistic, critical, or philosophical movement in history, postmodernism has come charging out of the ivory tower and into the minds and mouths of the public. The postmodern lens is now the one through which we all are expected to be able to view the world, but how many of us know what this really means? The tenets of postmodernism are much more than a trendy system of thought or an academic dialogue. Rather, they offer practical tools for coming to terms with a world composed of vast amounts of unsettling information, daily interactions with unfamiliar cultures and beliefs, and a continuous and overwhelming set of choices. [This book] is a stimulating and accessible exploration of the complexities of postmodern thought--constructivism, deconstruction, irony, pluralism, multiculturalism--as diverse as the world it describes. Readers will discover the roots of postmodernism, what it does to cultural symbols and differences, and how it affects psychology, religion, and science in essays both profoundly serious and thoroughly entertaining. [The editor] acts as a guide to this difficult terrain by leading readers through each essay, describing new and provocative ideas in detail, dispelling confusion, and, most important, showing what this thinking has to offer everyone. [This book] is an indispensable handbook for the new cultural literacy of our emerging postmodern world"-- Page [4] of cover.
    Notes
    "A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam book."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-252).
    Contents
    • Introduction: What's Going On Here?
    • 1. Themes of Postmodernity / Steinar Kvale
    • 2. What Is Post-Modernism? / Charles Jencks
    • 3. "I Love You Madly," He Said Self-consciously / Umberto Eco
    • 4. The Fragile Fiction / Ernest Becker
    • 5. The Dehumanized World / Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
    • 6. Strategies of Power / Michel Foucault
    • 7. The Idea of Pluralism / Isaiah Berlin
    • 8. The Idea of Culture / Roy Wagner
    • 9. The Idea of Ethnicity / Werner Sollors
    • 10. Santa Claus on the Cross / Richard Shweder
    • 11. The Map Precedes the Territory / Jean Baudrillard
    • 12. The Economy of Icons / Ernest Sternberg
    • 13. The Play of Substitution / Jacques Derrida
    • 14. How to Speak and Write Postmodern / Stephen Katz
    • 15. The Orthodox and the Progressive / James Davison Hunter
    • 16. Ironists and Metaphysicians / Richard Rorty
    • 17. Affirmatives and Skeptics / Pauline Marie Rosenau
    • 18. Four Different Ways to Be Absolutely Right / Walter Truett Anderson.
    ISBN
    • 0874778018 ((acid-free paper))
    • 9780874778014 ((acid-free paper))
    LCCN
    95005537
    OCLC
    32013405
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