What on earth is postmodernism? Here, at last, is the perfect audio guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to describe our cultural condition of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Postmodernism claims that ‚modernity‘, which grew from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution and Marxism, has collapsed. We now live in an endlessly ‚contemporary‘ culture, a virtual world of ‚hyperreality‘ containing such strange phenomena as post-Holocaust amnesia, Disneyland, cyberspace, and Fukuyama’s proclaimed ‚end of history‘. Richard Appignanesi, author of the best-selling book Introducing Postmodernism, takes the listener on a roller-coaster ride through the key areas of postmodern debate and explains the essentials of structuralism, semiotics, and deconstruction as developed by Foucault, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, and others. It is a crucial guide for anyone wanting to understand the hall of mirrors that is postmodernism.
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