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- Architecture
: From Prehistory to Post-Modernism/the Western Tradition -- Isabelle
Hyman, Marvin Trachtenberg
- related titles;
- Post-Modernism
and the Social Sciences : Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions -- Pauline
Marie Rosenau; Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the
study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the
notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects
humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of
post-modernism, Pauline Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and
describes how its key concepts are today being applied to, and are
restructuring, the social sciences. Serving as neither an opponent nor an
apologist for the movement, she cuts through post-modernism's often
incomprehensible jargon in order to offer all readers a lucid exposition of
its propositions. Rosenau shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and
rational organization radiates across academic fields. For example, in
psychology it questions the conscious, logical, coherent subject; in public
administration it encourages a retreat from central planning and from
reliance on specialists; in political science it calls into question the
authority of hierarchical, bureaucratic decision-making structures that
function in carefully defined spheres; in anthropology it inspires the
protection of local, primitive cultures from First World attempts to
reorganize them. In all of the social sciences, she argues, post-modernism
repudiates representative democracy and plays havoc with the very meaning of
"left-wing" and "right-wing." Rosenau also highlights
how post-modernism has inspired a new generation of social movements,
ranging from New Age sensitivities to Third World fundamentalism. In
weighing its strengths and weaknesses, the author examines two major
tendencies within post-modernism, the largely European, skeptical form and
the predominantly Anglo-North-American form, which suggests alternative
political, social, and cultural projects. She draws examples from
anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, law,
planning, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies, and
women's studies, and provides a glossary of post-modern terms to assist the
uninitiated reader with special meanings not found in standard dictionaries.
- related titles:
- What
Is Post-Modernism? -- Charles Jencks, provides a
lucid exposition of Post-Modernism in art and architecture. This book
clarifies a tradition that is thriving but still very much misunderstood.
The reader is presented with many examples of art and architecture
appropriate to Post-Modernism as well as being introduced to the history
which preceded it, facilitating a much clearer understanding of the overall
concept and initiating a thirst for more.
related titles:
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- Against
Post Modernism : A Marxist Critique
- Alex Callinicos / Paperback / Published 1990
- Art
of the Western World : From Ancient Greece to Post-Modernism
- Bruce Cole, et al / Paperback / Published 1991
- Chinese
Modernism in the Era of Reforms : Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction,
and the New Chinese Cinema (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
- Hsu-Tung Chang, et al / Paperback / Published 1997
- Dog
in Art : From Rococo to Post-Modernism
- Robert Rosenblum / Hardcover / Published 1995
- East
European Modernism : Architecture in Czechoslovakia Hungary & Poland
Between the Wars 1919-1939
- Wojciech Lesnikowski(Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published 1996
- Economics
and the Law : From Posner to Post-Modernism
- Nicholas Mercuro, Steven G. Medema / Paperback / Published 1999
- Economics
and the Law : From Posner to Post-Modernism
- Nicholas Mercuro, Steven G. Medema / Hardcover / Published 1997
- Modern
Art: Impressionism to Post-Modernism
- David Britt(Editor) / Paperback / Published 1999
- Myth,
Truth and Literature : Towards a True Post-Modernism
- Colin Falck / Paperback / Published 1994
- Our
America : Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism (Post-Contemporary
Interventions)
- Walter Benn Michaels / Paperback / Published 1997
- Our
America : Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (Post-Contemporary
Interventions)
- Walter Benn Michaels / Hardcover / Published 1995
- Post-Modernism
and the Social Sciences : Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions
- Pauline Marie Rosenau / Paperback / Published 1992
- Post-Modernism
and the Social Sciences : Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions
- Pauline Marie Rosenau / Hardcover / Published 1992
- Questions
of Travel : Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Post Contemporary
Interventions)
- Caren Kaplan / Paperback / Published 1996
- Readings
in Social Theory : The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism
- James Farganis(Editor) / Paperback / Published 1996
- Readings
in Social Theory : The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism
- James Farganis(Editor) / Paperback / Published 1999
- Russian
Modernism : The Collections of the Getty Research Institute for the
History of Art and the Humanities, I (Bibliographies & Dossiers)
- Jean-Louis Cohen(Introduction), et al / Hardcover / Published 1997
- We
Weren't Modern Enough : Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism
(Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 25)
- Marsha Meskimmon / Hardcover / Published 1999
- What
Is Post-Modernism?
- Charles Jencks, Charles Jencks / Paperback / Published 1996
- Architecture
: From Prehistory to Post-Modernism/the Western Tradition
- Isabelle Hyman, Marvin Trachtenberg / Hardcover / Published 1986
- Assembling
(Post)Modernism : The Utopian Philosophy of Ernst Bloch (Postmodernism :
The Utopian Philosophy of Ernst Bloch)
- John Miller Jones / Hardcover / Published 1996
- Chinese
Modernism in the Era of Reforms : Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction,
and the New Chinese Cinema (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
- Hsu-Tung Chang, Xudong Zhang / Hardcover / Published 1997
- The
Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf : Modernism, Post-Impressionism
and the Politics of the Visual
- Jane Goldman / Hardcover / Published 1998
- Grassroots
Post-Modernism : Remaking the Soil of Cultures
- Gustavo Esteva, Madhu Suri Prakash / Hardcover / Published 1998
- Grassroots
Post-Modernism : Remaking the Soil of Cultures
- Gustavo Esteva, Madhu Suri Prakash / Paperback / Published 1998
- Irishness
and (Post Modernism)
- John Rickard(Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1994
- Jean
Baudrillard : From Marxism to Post Modernism and Beyond (Key
Contemporary Thinkers)
- Douglas Kellner / Hardcover / Published 1989
- Jurisprudence
from the Greeks to Post-Modernity : From the Greeks to Post-Modernism
- Wayne Morrison / Paperback / Published 1996
- Literary
theory and the claims of history: Post-modernism, objectivity, multicul
- Satya Mohanty / Hardcover / Published 1998
- Mimetic
Desire : Essays on Narcissism in German Literature from Romanticism to
Post Modernism
- Jeffrey Adams, Eric Williams (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1995
- The
New Poetics in Canada and Quebec : From Concretism to Post-Modernism
- Caroline Bayard / Hardcover / Published 1989
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