Cultural History And Postmodernity
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Author |
: Mark Poster |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231108836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231108834 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural History and Postmodernity by : Mark Poster
In a series of incisive readings of signature historical works, Mark Poster charts the move from social history to new practices of cultural history that are drawing strength from poststructuralist interpretive strategies and raising issues found in feminist and postcolonialist discourse. In the process, he sets forth an outline for a postmodern historiography that can negotiate the contested terrain between the ambiguities of discourse and the pull of the "real." As Poster provides close readings of leading historians and theorists such as Lawrence Stone, Francois Furet, Michel de Certeau, and Michel Foucault, key themes animate his work: the often irreducible difference between past and present; the relationship of writing and representation to power and domination; the dissolving distinctions between high and low culture, production and consumption, and reality and fiction; and, most important, a new perspective on human agency and the construction of political subjects.
Author |
: John Docker |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1994-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521465982 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521465984 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postmodernism and Popular Culture by : John Docker
An intellectual adventure, this book engages with some of the most important academic debates of our time.
Author |
: Ernst Breisach |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2007-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226072814 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226072819 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis On the Future of History by : Ernst Breisach
What does postmodernism mean for the future of history? Can one still write history in postmodernity? To answer questions such as these, Ernst Breisach provides the first comprehensive overview of postmodernism and its complex relationship to history and historiography. Placing postmodern theories in their intellectual and historical contexts, he shows how they are part of broad developments in Western culture. Breisach sees postmodernism as neither just a fad nor a universal remedy. In clear and concise language, he presents and critically evaluates the major views on history held by influential postmodernists, such as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and the new narrativists. Along the way, he introduces to the reader major debates among historians over postmodern theories of evidence, objectivity, meaning and order, truth, and the usefulness of history. He also discusses new types of history that have emerged as a consequence of postmodernism, including cultural history, microhistory, and new historicism. For anyone concerned with the postmodern challenge to history, both advocates and critics alike, On the Future of History will be a welcome guide.
Author |
: Marvin Harris |
Publisher |
: Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0761990216 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780761990215 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times by : Marvin Harris
In this book, Marvin Harris presents his current views on the nature of culture addressing such issues as the mental/behavioral debate, emics and etics, and anthropological holism.
Author |
: Alan Liu |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2009-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226486970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226486974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Local Transcendence by : Alan Liu
Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today’s society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most local present—the most recent financial quarter, the latest artistic movement, the instant message or blog post at the top of the screen. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history. In the essays collected in Local Transcendence, Alan Liu takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism—including the new historicism, the new cultural history, cultural anthropology, the new pragmatism, and postmodern and postindustrial theory—and digital information technology. What is the relation between the new historicist anecdote and the database field, Liu asks, and can either have a critical function in the age of postmodern historicism? Local Transcendence includes two previously unpublished essays and a synthetic introduction in which Liu traverses from his earlier work on the theory of historicism to his recent studies of information culture to propose a theory of contingent method incorporating a special inflection of history: media history.
Author |
: Madan Sarup |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 074860779X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780748607792 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World by : Madan Sarup
This introductory guide surveys the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug and explains their analyses of current topics such as consumer identity and commodity aesthetics; post-colonial criticism; identity andnarrative; and the general condition of postmodernity.
Author |
: J. Peter Burgess |
Publisher |
: Rodopi |
Total Pages |
: 468 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9042003170 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789042003170 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Politics and Political Culture in Postmodern Europe by : J. Peter Burgess
The present volume assembles essays from a broad cultural and professional spectrum around the question of European cultural identity. The heterogeneity of the contributors -- their differing points of departure and methods -- attests to a tension in intellectual communities which today is more intense than ever. Europe's identity crisis is not merely an empirical matter. It reflects a far deeper, and far older, discursive crisis. The mandate of Europe's traditional intellectual institutions to preserve and police their own cultural heritage has proved incapable of evolving in a manner sufficient to account for the mutation in its object: European culture. It is not merely that Europe's identity, like any identity in the flux of history, has changed. Rather, the notion of identity, the very basis of any questions of who we are, where we are going, and the appropriate political forms and social institutions for further existence, all rely on a logic of identity which has, at best, become extremely problematic. It is this problematization which provides the common thread unifying the following essays. Each contributor, in his/her own way and with respect to his/her own research object, confronts the adequacy of the concept of cultural identity. The hidden presuppositions of this concept are indeed remarkable, and the logic of cultural identity prescribes that they remain undisclosed.
Author |
: Bo Stråth |
Publisher |
: Rodopi |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9042007559 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789042007550 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Postmodern Challenge by : Bo Stråth
This volume is designed to bridge a gap in the current theoretical debate about the nature, scope and relevance of postmodern perspectives in the humanist and social sciences in Eastern and Western Europe. While the debate has been reasonably comprehensive and certainly abrasive in Western European and Anglophone countries, it has signally failed to incorporate the viewpoints of Eastern European scholars and intellectuals. Even the current appropriation of Mikhail Bakhtin as a prophet of the postmodern is, paradoxically, a monologic engagement with his thought rather than a dialogic encounter of cultures. Doubtless different historical experiences, ideology and social aspirations go some way to account for the weariness of Eastern Europe with postmodern challenge and its glad embrace by Western scholars. The volume comprises some fifteen essays by leading historians, literary theorists and social scientists from Western and Eastern Europe and America. It has a threefold aim: firstly, to illuminate the distinctiveness of current Western and Eastern European theorizing about history and society; secondly, to reveal points of tension and disagreement, and, finally, to open up a space for a meeting of seemingly incompatible worlds.
Author |
: Krishan Kumar |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2009-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781405137614 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1405137614 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society by : Krishan Kumar
The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and substantial opening chapter. New edition of a classic study by a leading social theorist Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and post-modernism Places the three key ideas within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization.
Author |
: John N. Duvall |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2002-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791451933 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791451939 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Productive Postmodernism by : John N. Duvall
Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions.