ABSTRACT

This book, first published in 1990, addresses the broad cultural phenomenon that is postmodernism. The first part of the book raises some general theoretical questions about postmodernism – its language and its politics, for example. The second section attends to particular ‘sites’, namely the various arts themselves and the philosophical understanding of them. Here one finds specific readings of architecture, painting, literature, theatre, photography, film, television, dance and fashion.

part I|261 pages

Problematics

chapter 1|250 pages

Back to the Future

chapter 2|231 pages

Postmodern Language

chapter 4|203 pages

Postmodernism and (Post) Marxism

part II|219 pages

Sites

chapter 8|145 pages

Postmodernism and Theater