Full name: The Idea of the Postmodern: A History

Author: Hans Bertens Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

At last! Everything you ever wanted to know about postmodernism but were afraid to ask. Hans Bertens' Postmodernism is the first introductory overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witty and accessible guide for the bemused student. In clear and straightforward but always elegant prose, Bertens sets out the interdisciplinary aspects, the critical debates and the key theorists of postmodernism. He also explains, in thoughtful and illuminating language, the relationship between postmodernism and poststructuralism, and that between modernism and postmodernism. An enjoyable and indispensible text for today's student. Similar books: The Notebooks of Simone Weil by Simone Weil A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan Nature, Man and Woman by Alan Watts Practical Ethics by Peter Singer Lectures on Ancient Philosophy by Manly P. Hall Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity by Iain D. Thomson On Love and Loneliness by Jiddu Krishnamurti Real Essentialism by David S. Oderberg Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies by Raymond Smullyan Reflections on the Human Condition by Eric Hoffer Improvement of the Understanding by Baruch Spinoza Outside Ethics by Raymond Geuss Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Christopher Grau The Love of Wisdom by Steven B. Cowan The Visible and the Invisible by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Eastern Philosophy by Mel Thompson