The Postmodern Menace
The Postmodern Menace

Author: Conrad Riker

Publisher: Conrad Riker

Published: 101-01-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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Are you struggling with the encroachment of postmodernism into nearly every aspect of our lives? Are you tired of seeing the erosion of rationality and objective truth, replaced by subjective experience and identity politics? Look no further! "The Postmodern Menace" is your ultimate guide to understanding the rise of postmodernism and its consequences on culture, politics, and daily life. 1. Discover the origins of postmodernism and how it has infiltrated mainstream culture. 2. Learn how postmodernism has eroded family values and contributed to the decline of traditional relationships. 3. Uncover the ways in which postmodernism has been weaponized by radical leftists and populist movements. 4. Explore the role of technology, media, and the internet in the development and spread of postmodern ideas. 5. Delve into the impact of consumerism, branding, and advertising on shaping postmodern society. 6. Uncover the phenomenon of identity politics and its relation to postmodernism, critiquing the assumptions and consequences of such movements. 7. Understand the relationship between the erosion of objective truth and the rise of subjective experience in postmodern culture. 8. Get a deep dive into the feminist critique of postmodernism and the divide between liberal feminists and those adopting postmodern perspectives. If you want to understand the pervasive and insidious effects of postmodernism, and how to resist its pull, "The Postmodern Menace" is the book for you! Don't wait, buy it today!

New World Order of Postmodernism in the Plays of Harold Pinter
New World Order of Postmodernism in the Plays of Harold Pinter

Author: Saumya Rajan

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2018-07-06

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1543702260

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The book reconnoiters the New World Order of Postmodernism in five plays The Room (1957), The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1960), The Homecoming (1965) and Celebration (2000) of Harold Pinter. With culturally structured, incomprehensibly manipulated, dual and fragmented characters, Harold Pinter analyses the ambiguities of political system. It is perhaps the System that forcibly drags Stanley to a world of systems in The Birthday Party. The situation of Ruth in The Homecoming clearly indicates the inevitable grip of this System. The last play Celebration overtly ridicules the very political system we approve of wherein the strategy consultants and the corporate people define the organized mechanism of this SYSTEM! The internalization of power which the power structures of societies and politics possess, appears largely in his plays, providing postmodernism its duality. Pinter offers us a true picture of our postmodernist culture an apocalyptic world at the edge of civilization.

Jesus in Disneyland
Jesus in Disneyland

Author: David Lyon

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0745669379

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In this lively and accessible study, David Lyon explores the relationship between religion and postmodernity, through the central metaphor of 'Jesus in Disneyland.'

Overcoming Onto-Theology
Overcoming Onto-Theology

Author: Merold Westphal

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2009-08-25

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0823221296

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Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America’s leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. Written with characteristic clarity and charm, Westphal offers masterful studies of Heidegger’s early lectures on Paul and Augustine, the idea of hermeneutics, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Derrida, and Nietzsche, all in the service of building his argument that postmodern thinking offers an indispensable tool for rethinking Christian faith. A must read for every student and professor of continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion, Overcoming Onto-theology is an invaluable collection that brings together in one place fourteen provocative and lucid essays by one of the most important thinkers working in American philosophy today.

The Postmodern Challenge
The Postmodern Challenge

Author: Stråth

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-04

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9004647546

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This volume is designed to bridge a gap in the current theoretical debate about the nature, scope and relevance of postmodern perspectives in the humanist and social sciences in Eastern and Western Europe. While the debate has been reasonably comprehensive and certainly abrasive in Western European and Anglophone countries, it has signally failed to incorporate the viewpoints of Eastern European scholars and intellectuals. Even the current appropriation of Mikhail Bakhtin as a prophet of the postmodern is, paradoxically, a monologic engagement with his thought rather than a dialogic encounter of cultures. Doubtless different historical experiences, ideology and social aspirations go some way to account for the weariness of Eastern Europe with postmodern challenge and its glad embrace by Western scholars. The volume comprises some fifteen essays by leading historians, literary theorists and social scientists from Western and Eastern Europe and America. It has a threefold aim: firstly, to illuminate the distinctiveness of current Western and Eastern European theorizing about history and society; secondly, to reveal points of tension and disagreement, and, finally, to open up a space for a meeting of seemingly incompatible worlds.

Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age
Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age

Author: David B. Morris

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0520926242

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We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern era—roughly the period since World War II—as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring these changes, David B. Morris tells the fascinating story, or stories, of what goes into making the postmodern experience of illness different, perhaps unique. Even as he decries the overuse and misuse of the term "postmodern," Morris shows how brightly ideas of illness, health, and postmodernism illuminate one another in late-twentieth-century culture. Modern medicine traditionally separates disease—an objectively verified disorder—from illness—a patient's subjective experience. Postmodern medicine, Morris says, can make no such clean distinction; instead, it demands a biocultural model, situating illness at the crossroads of biology and culture. Maladies such as chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder signal our awareness that there are biocultural ways of being sick. The biocultural vision of illness not only blurs old boundaries but also offers a new and infinitely promising arena for investigating both biology and culture. In many ways Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age leads us to understand our experience of the world differently.

U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Third World: A Post-cold War Assessment
U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Third World: A Post-cold War Assessment

Author: Jurgen Ruland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-22

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1315497476

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The contributors to this work examine the evolution of U.S. foreign policy toward the Third World, and the new policy challenges facing developing nations in the post-Cold War era. The book incorporates the key assessment standards of U.S. foreign policies directed toward critical regions, including Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. Through this region-by-region analysis, readers will get the information and insight needed to fully understand U.S. policy objectives - especially with regard to economic and security issues in the wake of 9/11 - vis a vis the developing world. The book outlines both successes and failures of Washington, as it seeks to deal with the Third World in a new era of terrorism, trade, and democratic enlargement. It also considers whether anti-Western sentiment in Third World regions is a direct result of U.S. foreign policies since the end of the Cold War.

Doing Time
Doing Time

Author: Rita Felski

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2000-09

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0814727077

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In Doing Time, Rita Felski argues that it makes little sense to think of the modern and postmodern as antithetical ideas. Rather, we need a historical perspective attentive to the leaky boundaries between different times as well as the many cultural and political differences within a single time.

Cinematic Appeals
Cinematic Appeals

Author: Ariel Rogers

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0231159161

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Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen films drew the spectator into the world of the screen, enabling larger-than-life close-ups of already larger-than-life actors. The technology fostered the illusion of physically entering a film, enhancing the semblance of realism. Alternatively, the digital era was less concerned with manipulating the viewer’s physical response and more with generating information flow, awe, disorientation, and the disintegration of spatial boundaries. This study ultimately shows how cinematic technology and the human experience shape and respond to each other over time. Films discussed include Elia Kazan’s East of Eden (1955), Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999), The Matrix (1999), and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme film The Celebration (1998).