The Illusions of Postmodernism 1st Edition by Terry Eagleton, ISBN-13: 978-0631203230
[PDF eBook eTextbook]
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (December 23, 1996)
- Language: English
- 160 pages
- ISBN-10: 0631203230
- ISBN-13: 978-0631203230
This brilliant critique explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. His primary concern is less with the more intricate formulations of postmodern philosophy than with the culture or milieu of postmodernism as a whole. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular “brands” of postmodern thought.
Although Professor Eagleton’s view of the topic is, as he says, generally a negative one, he points to postmodernism’s strengths as well as its failings. He sets out not just to expose the illusions of postmodernism but to show the students he has in mind that they never believed what they thought they believed in the first place. In the process his gifts for irony and satire sharpen the reader’s pleasure, and his commitment to the ethical and the vision of a just society, inspire engagement and “a refusal to acquiesce in the appalling mess which is the contemporary world”.
In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular “brands” of postmodern thought.
Table of Contents:
Preface.
1. Beginnings.
2. Ambivalences.
3. Histories.
4. Subjects.
5. Fallacies.
6. Contradictions.
Notes.
Index.
Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. The Second Edition of his classic Literary Theory: An Introduction appeared in 1996 as did Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader, co-edited with Drew Milne. His numerous other books include Heathcliffe and the Great Hunger (1995), The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), William Shakespeare (1986), Walter Benjamin (1976), Criticism and Ideology (1976), and Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976).
What makes us different?
• Instant Download
• Always Competitive Pricing
• 100% Privacy
• FREE Sample Available
• 24-7 LIVE Customer Support
