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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Encyclopedia of Postmodernism Encyclopedia of Postmodernism Victor E Taylor Postmodernism has emerged as a critical cultural, political and intellectual concept and has significantly altered our understanding of every discipline from architecture to ethics, and history to po… OL15169528W
Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism Sylvia Harrison Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism examines the critical reception of Pop Art in America during the 1960s. Comparing the ideas of a group of New York-based critics, including Leo Steinberg, Su… OL15174832W
A Magic Still Dwells A Magic Still Dwells Kimberley C. Patton,Benjamin C. Ray The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the c… OL16803413W
Process and difference Process and difference Catherine Keller "The similarities and creative tensions between French-based poststructuralism and Whiteheadian process thought are examined here by leading scholars. Although both approaches are labeled "postmodern… OL16963287W
Architecture and disjunction Architecture and disjunction Bernard Tschumi "Index Architecture documents the extensive cross-fertilization of ideas that can occur between architectural practice and education. Through work developed by students and faculty at Columbia Univer… OL1727574W
Der Streit um Differenz Der Streit um Differenz Drucilla Cornell,Seyla Benhabib,Judith Butler,Nancy Fraser This unique volume presents a debate between four of the top feminist theorists in the United States today. Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser discuss some of the key qu… OL18982263W
Shadow of spirit Shadow of spirit Philippa Berry,Andrew Wernick xiii, 274 pages ; 24 cm OL19402387W
Postmodernity and Cross-Culturalism Postmodernity and Cross-Culturalism Yoshinobu Hakutani "This collection of eleven essays with an introduction examines postmodernity, a contiguous literary movement from modernity in cross-culturalism. In the west, modernity, which flourished in the earl… OL19549557W
The Holocaust and the postmodern The Holocaust and the postmodern Robert Eaglestone Reading and the holocaust: 'Not read and consumed in the same way as other books' : identification and the genre of testimony ; Traces of experience : the texts of testimony ; 'Faithful and doubtful,… OL19855721W
Postmodernism for historians Postmodernism for historians Callum G. Brown Postmodernism isn't some kind of optional plug-in for your world view. It is a powerful explanation of how ideas work. If you want to explore ideas with an informed perspective on how they function, … OL2008223W
Uncritical theory Uncritical theory Christopher Norris "Shortly after the cessation of hostilities, Jean Baudrillard published an article entitled "The Gulf War Has Not Taken Place," arguing that the conflict had been a "hyperreal" event, a product of su… OL2630333W
Postmodernity Postmodernity David Lyon Concepts in the Social Sciences series. OL3476830W
The Postmodern in Latin and Latino American Cultural Narratives The Postmodern in Latin and Latino American Cultural Narratives Claudia Ferman "Collection of essays reaffirms that the debate over postmodernity in Latin America is alive and well. The book mixes a series of essays with interviews by well-known scholars working in Latin Americ… OL4039546W
Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie Sabrina Hassumani "Salman Rushdie: A Postmodern Reading of His Major Works attempts a close textual analysis of Rushdie's five major novels: Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Storie… OL6215293W
Enemies within Enemies within Jacqueline Foertsch "Enemies Within presents the literature and film of the cold war and AIDS eras as evidence, manifestation, and symptom of the recurring ills of our postnuclear time: global threat, buried fears, and … OL7795646W
Culturas híbridas Culturas híbridas Néstor García Canclini "El libro es una especie de sociología de la cultura aplicada a América Latina. Aunque los temas son muy concretos, el enfoque del autor tiende a ser filosófico. Tradición y modernidad son los do… OL850558W
Telling the truth about history Telling the truth about history Margaret D. Jacobs,Lynn Hunt,Joyce Oldham Appleby, PhD,Margaret Jacob We have lost our grip on historical truth. Popular films depict subterranean conspiracies that shape historical events and public knowledge of those events. Best-selling narrative histories dissolve … OL85897W