Crossing the Postmodern Divide

Name: Crossing the Postmodern Divide
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ISBN: 9780226066271

ISBN-10: 0226066274

ISBN-13: 9780226066271

Edition: 1993

Authors: Albert Borgmann

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In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of society's ills to every sphere of contemporary social life, and goes beyond the language of postmodern discourse to offer a powerfully articulated vision of what this new era, at its best, has in store. "[This] thoughtful book is the first remotely realistic map out of the post modern labyrinth."--Joseph Coates, The Chicago Tribune "Rather astoundingly large-minded vision of the nature of humanity, civilization and science."--Kirkus…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 182
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


1


Introduction


Sullenness


Hyperactivity


2


Aggressive Realism


Methodical Universalism


Ambiguous Individualism


3


The Postmodern Critique


The Postmodern Economy


4


The Power and Ambiguity of Postmodernism


Hyperreality


Hyperactivity


Hyperintelligence


5


Realism


Moral Decisions and Material Culture


Focal Realism Patient


Vigor Communal Celebration


Notes


Index