The postmodernist turn : American thought and culture in the 1970s / J. David Hoeveler, Jr.
The postmodernist turn : American thought and culture in the 1970s / J. David Hoeveler, Jr.
The postmodernist turn : American thought and culture in the 1970s / J. David Hoeveler, Jr.
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New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1996.
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N973.924/7
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English
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xvii, 225 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Postindustrialism -- 2. Wars of Words -- 3. Reading Left -- 4. Postmodernism I, Painting -- 5. Postmodernism II, Architecture -- 6. Writing Feminist -- 7. Debating Black -- 8. Neoconservatism -- 9. On Liberalism.
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New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1996.
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New York (State)
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c1996.
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Although the new continental thinking promised to revitalize the American Left, Hoeveler shows how the American readings actually fortified more traditional norms in American thought. Thus, as the works of Claude Levi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida gained much attention in academic circles, American readings domesticated the European...
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The postmodernist turn : American thought and culture in the 1970s / J. David Hoeveler, Jr.
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Twayne's American thought and culture series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1996.
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N973.924/7
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74VvZ4MX36Wd
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0805790640 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780805790641 (cloth : alk. paper)
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973.924
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991004740709702626
