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The Fontana post-modernism reader

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Fontana Press, 1996.Description: 235 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0006863701
  • 9780006863700
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Contents:
What's going on here? -- Part One : In and out of the Grand Hotel -- Themes and definitions -- The construction of reality -- Three useful inventions -- Part Two : All that is solid melts into air -- Symbols at work and play -- Different kinds of difference -- Part Three : Self, sex and sanity --The pluralistic person, the disappearing self -- sex and gender -- Reconstructing psychology -- Part Four : Faith and Freedom -- Science without scientism -- Religion in the age of disbelief
Summary: In the Fontana Postmodernism Reader the word's pre-eminent practitioners of postmodern thinking - writers of the stature of Jean Baudrillard, Isaiah Berlin, Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucalt, bell hooks, Richard Rorty, Howard Garner, Paul Feyerabend, Václav Havel, Charles Jencks, and Thomas Kuhn - give their own unique accounts of postmodern theory and describe new and iconoclastic ways of understanding kaleidoscopic experience. --cover.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General B 831 FON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0006396
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General B 831 FON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available Donated by Henry Symonds, 2019. 0013308

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227).

What's going on here? -- Part One : In and out of the Grand Hotel -- Themes and definitions -- The construction of reality -- Three useful inventions -- Part Two : All that is solid melts into air -- Symbols at work and play -- Different kinds of difference -- Part Three : Self, sex and sanity --The pluralistic person, the disappearing self -- sex and gender -- Reconstructing psychology -- Part Four : Faith and Freedom -- Science without scientism -- Religion in the age of disbelief

In the Fontana Postmodernism Reader the word's pre-eminent practitioners of postmodern thinking - writers of the stature of Jean Baudrillard, Isaiah Berlin, Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucalt, bell hooks, Richard Rorty, Howard Garner, Paul Feyerabend, Václav Havel, Charles Jencks, and Thomas Kuhn - give their own unique accounts of postmodern theory and describe new and iconoclastic ways of understanding kaleidoscopic experience. --cover.

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