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Author: Dr. Richa Dewan
ISBN: 9789384275143
Published: 2015
Genre: English
Language: English
Pages:
Format: Hardcover
ABOUT THE BOOK: A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from modernism and is characterised by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a general distrust of theories. Postmodernism 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 assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are today being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. Serving as neither an opponent nor an apologist for the movement, she cuts through post-modernism’s often incomprehensible jargon in order to offer all readers a lucid exposition of its propositions. Rosenau shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields. Postmodernism, on the other hand, refers to a trend either in philosophy or in the arts. Strictly speaking, the only thing that postmodernists necessarily have in common is the belief that the modern period is at an end, exhausted, decadent, dead, or dying. This is somewhat confused by the fact that modernism itself has several= different meanings. However this book is extremely student friendly and touches all cannons and genres of postmodernism in a very precise and simple manner.
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