Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations by Best, Steven

Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780898624182)

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Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations by Best, Steven

Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations

$32.00
Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations by Best, Steven

Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations

$32.00
Format: Paperback
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In this timely volume, the authors systematically analyze postmodern theory to evaluate its relevance for critical social theory and radical politics today.

Best and Kellner provide:

* An introduction and critique of the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Laclau and Mouffe, and Jameson, which assess the varying contributions and limitations of postmodern theory

* A discussion of postmodern feminist theory and the politics of identity

* A systematic study of the origin of the discourse of the postmodern in historical, sociological, cultural, and philosophical studies.

The authors claim that while postmodern theory provides insights into contemporary developments, it lacks adequate methodological and political perspectives to provide a critical social theory and radical politics for the present age.


Author: Steven Best, Douglas Kellner
ISBN-10: 0898624185
ISBN-13: 9780898624182
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Language: English
Published: 11/15/1991
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.58w x 0.70d
By Steven Best
By Steven Best
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Steven Best, Ph.D., is a Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. He has published articles on Marx, postmodern theory, Baudrillard, Debord, Jameson, film, television, and cultural theory.
Douglas Kellner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of Karl Korsch: Revolutionary Theory; Marxism and Modernity; Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond; Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film (with Michael Ryan); and Television and the Crisis of Democracy

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