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Reality isn't what it used to be : theatrical politics, ready-to-wear religion, global myths, primitive chic and other wonders of the postmodern world / Walter Truett Anderson.
LIBRA CB428 .A64 1992
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Walt, 1933-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Modern--1950-.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Postmodernism.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 288 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, Calif. : HarperSanFrancisco, [1992]
- Summary:
- Now in paperback--a provocative and entertaining tour through the contemporary landscape, from deconstruction and punk rock to Ronald Reagan and New Age religion.
- Contents:
- Welcome to the postmodern world
- To see the wizard
- Science and the creative brain
- The meanings of literature
- Making beliefs and making believe
- Being someone : the contruction of personal reality
- Democracy's dilemma
- The magic bazaar
- The two faces of God
- All the world's a stage
- The emergent fiction.
- Notes:
- Originally published: San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-280) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0062500171
- OCLC:
- 25315428
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