The Fontana post-modernism reader
Publication details: London : Fontana Press, 1996.Description: 235 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 0006863701
- 9780006863700
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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.