ABSTRACT

This compelling book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the successor of Best and Kellner's two previous books, Postmodern Theory, acclaimed as the best critical introduction to the field - and The Postmodern Turn, which provides a powerful mapping of postmodern developments developments in the arts, politics, science, and theory. In The Postmodern Adventure, Best and Kellner analyze a broad array of literary, cultural, and political phenomena from fiction, film, science, and the Internet, to globalization and the rise of a transnational image culture.

chapter |21 pages

Introduction

Between the Modern and the Postmodern

chapter 2|43 pages

Modern/Postmodern Wars

Vietnam, Iraq, and Beyond

chapter 3|49 pages

Postmodern Turns in Science