The postmodern adventure : science, technology, and cultural studies at the Third Millennium / Steven Best, Douglas Kellner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Best, Steven.

Contributor:

Kellner, Douglas, 1943-

Series:

Critical perspectives (New York, N.Y.)

Critical perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Postmodernism.

Social change.

Physical Description:

v, 313 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, [2001]

Summary:

This Compelling Book Explores the Challenges to Theory, Politics, and Human Identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the success of Best and Kellner's two previous books: Postmodern Theory, acclaimed as the best critical introduction to the field, and The Postmodern Turn, which provides a powerful mapping of postmodern developments in the arts, politics, science, and theory. In The Postmodern Adventure, Best and Kellner analyze a broad array of literary, cultural, and political phenomena -- from fiction, film, science, and the Internet, to globalization and the rise of a transnational image culture. They use the best of modern and postmodern perspectives to illuminate contemporary life and to strive for a just and viable future.

Contents:

Introduction: Between the Modern and the Postmodern 1

1 Thomas Pynchon and the Advent of Postmodernity 23

2 Modern/Postmodern Wars: Vietnam, Iraq, and Beyond 57

3 Postmodern Turns in Science 100

4 Technological Revolution and Human Evolution 149

5 Globalization and the Restructuring of Capital 205

Epilogue: Challenges for the Third Millennium 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index.

ISBN:

1572306661

1572306653

OCLC:

46683688