Histories of Postmodernism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bevir, Mark; Rushing, Sara; Hargis, Jill

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism. As postmodern ideas traveled from mid-twentieth century France and on to the contemporary United States, so the relevant theorists transformed that heritage within the context of particular intellectual traditions and specific political and aesthetic issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135776565
• Artikelnr.: 60151007

Autorenporträt

Mark Bevir is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Logic of the History of Ideas (1999) and New Labour: A Critique (2005), and coauthor of Interpreting British Governance (2003) and Governance Stories (2006). Jill Hargis is an Assistant Professor at California State Polytechnic University Pomona where she teaches political theory and public law. Sara Rushing is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Linfield College.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Histories of Postmodernism 2. Honesty as the Best Policy:
Nietzsche on Redlichkeit and the Contrast between Stoic and Epicurean
Strategies of the Self 3. Escape from the Subject: Heidegger's Das Man and
Being-in-the-World 4. A Rock and a Hard Place: Althusser, Structuralism,
Communism and the Death of the Anticapitalist Left 5. Hammer without a
Master: French Phenomenology and the Origins of Deconstruction (Or, How
Derrida Read Heidegger) 6. 'A Kind of Radicality': The Avant-garde Legacy
in Postmodern Ethics 7. Derrida's Engagement with Political Philosophy
8. From the 'Death of Man' to Human Rights: The Paradigm Change in French
Intellectual Life 9. 'The Democratic Literature of the Future': Richard
Rorty, Postmodernism and the American Poetic Tradition 10. The Secular and
the Post-Secular in the Thought of Edward Said 11. Longing For 'A Certain
Kind of Future': Drucilla Cornell, Sexual Difference and the Imaginary
Domain