[Introduction to] After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places

Authors

Gary Shapiro, University of RichmondFollow

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This book brings together diverse aspects of postmodernism by philosophers, literary critics, historians of architecture, and sociologists. It addresses the nature of postmodernism in painting, architecture, and the performing arts, and explores the social and political implications of postmodern theories of culture.

The book raises the question of whether postmodernism is to be seen as one more epoch or period within a succession of eras, or as a challenge to the modernist practice of periodization itself.

The nature of the subject and of subjectivity is explored in order to resituate and contextualize the autonomous subject of the modern literary traditions.

Postmodern approaches to philosophy, both analytical and continental (including the work of Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Rorty, and Cavell) are scrutinized and compared with a view to the question of foundationalism and with respect to philosophy's historical reflection on its own exclusionary practices.

After the Future discusses the ramifications of technology and programs for the renewal of community in a radically pluralistic society. It also discusses the question of language and the diverse ways of distinguishing the articulate from the inarticulate.

ISBN

9780791402108

Publication Date

1990

Publisher

State University of New York Press

City

Albany

Keywords

postmodernism, postmodern theories of culture, modern literary traditions

School

School of Arts and Sciences

Department

Philosophy

Disciplines

Philosophy

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Edited by: Gary Shapiro

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Recommended Citation

After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places, Edited by Gary Shapiro. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.