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The truth about the truth : de-confusing and re-constructing the postmodern world / edited by Walter Truett Anderson.
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English
Published/Created
New York : Putnam, [1995]
©1995
Description
x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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B831.2 .T77 1995
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Postmodernism
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Editor
Anderson, Walt, 1933-
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Series
New consciousness reader
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A new consciousness reader
Summary note
"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.
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ISBN
0874778018 ((acid-free paper))
9780874778014 ((acid-free paper))
LCCN
95005537
OCLC
32013405
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