Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American Thought (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780847694266)

Postmodernism Rightly Understood is a dramatic return to realism--a poetic attempt to attain a true understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the postmodern predicament. Prominent political theorist Peter Augustine Lawler reflects on the flaws of postmodern thought, the futility of pragmatism, and the spiritual emptiness of existentialism. Lawler examines postmodernism by interpreting the writings of five respected and best selling American authors--Francis Fukuyama, Richard Rorty, Allan Bloom, Walker Percy, and Christopher Lasch. Lawler explains why the alternatives available in our time are either a "soulless niceness," which Fukuyama, Rorty, and Bloom described as the result of modern success, or a postmodern moral responsibility that accompanies love in the ruins, as articulated by Percy and Lasch. This is a fresh and compelling look at the crisis of the human soul and intellect accompanied by the onset of postmodernity.

Author: Peter Augustine Lawler
ISBN-10: 0847694267
ISBN-13: 9780847694266
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 07/29/1999
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.01h x 5.88w x 0.46d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2000