The Postmodern Adventure

Science Technology and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-23962-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Best, Steven

Kellner, Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION, Between the Modern and the Postmodern, 1 Thomas Pynchon and the Advent of Postmodernity, 2 Modern/Postmodern Wars: Vietnam, Iraq, and Beyond, 3 Postmodern Turns in Science, 4 Technological Revolution and Human Evolution, 5 Globalization and the Restructuring of Capital, EPILOGUE, Challenges for the Third Millennium, Bibliography, Index, About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Best is Assoeiate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. The author of The Polities cif Historical Vision, he is eoauthor (with Douglas Kellner) of Postmodern Theory and The Postmodern Turn.,

Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Edueation at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is coauthor of Postmodern Theory and The Postmodern Turn, and author of several other books on social theory, polities, history, and culture.