Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Arts

ISBN-13: 9781138083295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 318 str.

Hugh J. Silverman

Opis

This reissue (1990) addresses the cultural phenomenon that is postmodernism. The first part raises some general theoretical questions about postmodernism. The second section attends to the various arts and the philosophical understanding of them: specific readings of architecture, painting, literature, theatre, photography, film, television, dance and fashion.

Spis treści

Introduction  The Philosophy of Postmodernism Hugh J. Silverman  Part 1. Problematics  1. Back to the Future Mark C. Taylor  2. Postmodern Language Charles E. Scott  3. The Contradictory Character of Postmodernism Donald Kuspit  4. Postmodernism and (Post)Marxism John O’Neill  Part 2. Sites  5. In Situ: Beyond the Architectonics of the Modern Stephen H. Watson  6. A Postmodern Language in Art Dorothea Olkowski-Laetz  7. The Otherness of Words: Joyce, Bakhtin, Heidegger Gerald L. Bruns  8. Postmodernism and Theater Fred McGlynn  9. Lucid Intervals: Postmodernism and Photography Allen S. Weiss  10. Filming: Inscriptions of Denken Wilhelm S. Wurzer and Hugh J. Silverman  11. The Televised and the Untelevised: Keeping an Eye On/Off the Tube Brian Seitz  12. Postmodernism in Dance: Dance, Discourse, Democracy David Michael Levin  13. Obsolescence and Desire: Fashion and the Commodity Form Gail Faurschou

O autorze

Hugh J. Silverman