The Postmodern Turn (Critical Perspectives)

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This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the emergence of a postmodern paradigm in the arts science politics and theory. From the authors of POSTMODERN THEORY the much-acclaimed introduction to key postmodern thinkers and themes THE POSTMODERN TURN ranges over diverse intellectual and artistic terrain--from architecture painting literature music and politics to the physical and biological sciences. Critically engaging postmodern theory and culture Steven Best and Douglas Kellner illuminate our momentous transition between a modernist past and a future struggling to define itself. Winner of the Michael Harrington Award for the best book of 1998