Spirits Hovering over the Ashes: Legacies of Postmodern Theory - Couverture rigide

Hix, H. L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0791425150 ISBN 13 : 9780791425152

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1995

Synopsis

Explores the consequences of postmodern theory and answers the question, "What did postmodern theory begin?"

In a series of topical explorations structured like a sonata, H. L. Hix identifies the consequences of postmodern theory through such issues as grief, freedom, beauty, obscenity, love, and sex to its axiological consequences. A basic motif, postmodernism's distribution of meaning over space rather than time, recurs throughout the chapters, each of which in some way amplifies the book's underlying theme, virtue. The "exposition" of the theme in the first ten chapters receives its "development" in the chapter, "Postmodern Virtue," and its "recapitulation" in the aphorisms of the final chapter.

By choosing names like "deconstruction," postmodern theory postures as that which shakes foundations. But any declaration of an end is also a declaration of a beginning, and Spirits Hovering Over the Ashes pushes past the posturing to ask what foundations postmodern theory has laid.

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À propos de l?auteur

H. L. Hix is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791425150
• ISBN 13: 9780791425152
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
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