Publisher's Synopsis
Providing an overview of the historical and epistemological contexts within which Postmodernism has developed, this book aims to establish its relevance to contemporary culture. Wakefield maps out the key positions within the debate, offering a critical review of the principle protagonists: Barthes, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Foucault, Huyssen, Jameson and Lacan. He takes the contemporary debate back to linguistics, media studies, literary analysis, deconstruction and psychoanalysis. He looks at it through specific modern cultural phenomena such as Disneyworld, "The Sunday Sport" and Acid House.;Neville Wakefield's thesis on cultural history which he wrote at the Royal College of Art was awarded the Penguin Book Prize for the best thesis of 1988.
