The Illusions of Postmodernism | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780631203230 | The Illusions of Postmodernism | Terry Eagleton | Taschenbuch | 1996

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Beschreibung

This brilliant critique explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. His primary concern is less with the more intricate formulations of postmodern philosophy than with the culture or milieu of postmodernism as a whole. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought.

Although Professor Eagleton's view of the topic is, as he says, generally a negative one, he points to postmodernism's strengths as well as its failings. He sets out not just to expose the illusions of postmodernism but to show the students he has in mind that they never believed what they thought they believed in the first place. In the process his gifts for irony and satire sharpen the reader's pleasure, and his commitment to the ethical and the vision of a just society, inspire engagement and "a refusal to acquiesce in the appalling mess which is the contemporary world".

Über den Autor

Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. The Second Edition of his classic Literary Theory: An Introduction appeared in 1996 as did Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader, co-edited with Drew Milne. His numerous other books include Heathcliffe and the Great Hunger (1995), The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), William Shakespeare (1986), Walter Benjamin (1976), Criticism and Ideology (1976), and Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

1. Beginnings.

2. Ambivalences.

3. Histories.

4. Subjects.

5. Fallacies.

6. Contradictions.

Notes.

Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1996
Genre:	Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780631203230
ISBN-10:	0631203230
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Eagleton, Terry
Hersteller:	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße:	229 x 152 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Terry Eagleton
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.11.1996
Gewicht:	0,242 kg

Artikel-ID: 101330076