Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American Thought - Couverture souple

Lawler, Peter Augustine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0847694267 ISBN 13 : 9780847694266

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999

Synopsis

Postmodernism Rightly Understood is a dramatic return to realisma poetic attempt to attain a true understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the postmodern predicament. Prominent political theorist Peter Augustine Lawler reflects on the flaws of postmodern thought, the futility of pragmatism, and the spiritual emptiness of existentialism. Lawler examines postmodernism by interpreting the writings of five respected and best selling American authors Francis Fukuyama, Richard Rorty, Allan Bloom, Walker Percy, and Christopher Lasch. Lawler explains why the alternatives available in our time are either a "soulless niceness," which Fukuyama, Rorty, and Bloom described as the result of modern success, or a postmodern moral responsibility that accompanies love in the ruins, as articulated by Percy and Lasch. This is a fresh and compelling look at the crisis of the human soul and intellect accompanied by the onset of postmodernity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Augustine Lawler is professor of government at Berry College and associate editor of Perspectives on Political Science, is the author and editor of eight books and over 100 articles and chapters.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0847694267
• ISBN 13: 9780847694266
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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