"Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists as if they were all members of a loosely constituted and quarrelsome political...

If you are like most people, you're not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn't tell you. Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction to the most profound spiritual and philosophical crisis of our time - the failure of the Enlightenment. Jim Powell takes the position that Postmodernism is a series...

From the academy to pop culture, society is in the throes of change, rivaling the birth of modernity out of the decay of the Middle Ages. There is now a move from the modern to the postmodern era. But what is postmodernism? How did it arise? What characterizes the postmodern ethos? What is the postmodern mind and how does it differ from the modern mind? Who are its leading advocates? Most important of all, what challenges does this cultural shift...

Gale Researcher Guide for: Thomas Pynchon and Emerging Postmodernism is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Several decades have now passed since postcolonial and feminist critiques presented the art-historical world with a demythologized Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), a much-diminished image of the artist/hero who had once been universally admired as "the father of modernist primitivism." In this volume, both long-established and more recent Gauguin scholars offer a provocative picture of the evolution of Gauguin scholarship in the recent postmodern era, as...

Gale Researcher Guide for: Anticipating Postmodernism: Saul Bellow and Donald Barthelme is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Is there a solution to Christians hearing Well, thats just your opinion when we share the gospel? Are we stuck with only responses like Well, thats what our community thinks, or Our Christian experts think its true? This book aims past these questions and lets the reader in on weaknesses to the postmodern rejection of Christian truth. If youre looking for some direction on why your friends or neighbors postmodernism thats your opinion fails and why...

"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992" Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau is Professor of Management and Policy Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Texas/Houston. Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive...

Nicholas Mercuro is Professor of Law in Residence at Michigan State University College of Law and a faculty member of James Madison College. He has authored or edited seven books and is the founder and coeditor of the book series The Economics of Legal Relationships. Steven G. Medema, Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Denver, is the author of Ronald H. Coase and editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. This...

This book contains a wide-ranging selection of writings by "perennialist" author William Stoddart that expose the many false ideologies of postmodernism ("forgetting") and call for a return to traditional religion, especially in its mystical dimensions ("remembering").