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Introducing Postmodernism (Abridged) Audiobook, by Richard Appignanesi Play Audiobook Sample

Introducing Postmodernism (Abridged) Audiobook

By: Richard Appignanesi
Introducing Postmodernism (Abridged) Audiobook, by Richard Appignanesi Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: William Roberts Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 1.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2005 Format: Abridged Audiobook ISBN:
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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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"this book actually helped me to understand postmodernism -- no easy task. i referred to it constantly while writing a paper in law school. i'd recommend this whole series on philosophy for a quick an understandable explanation of stuff that generally makes your head hurt. there are pictures! "

— Erin (4 out of 5 stars)

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