ABSTRACT

There are several ways to begin to discuss the issues raised by ‘postmodernism’. This account tries to address the debates with the interests in mind of sociologists and analysts of popular culture, implying, as the Introduction suggests, a wariness towards what can look like philosophical excess. This chapter is instead pitched at a different level and with different interests, and it is also necessary to remember the student audience for this book: you will be pursuing these issues in a rather different context from those professors who discuss issues in interviews with their peers, say.