Publisher's Synopsis
The book is clearly and well presented and thorough in introducing Postmodernism. This book touches all the bases and gives anyone interested a working handle on the high points. This book defines the world's cultural condition over the last three decades by using the maddeningly enigmatic concept. It tracks the idea back to its roots by taking a tour of some of the most extreme and exhilarating events, people, and thought of the last 100 years: in art - constructivism, conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol; in politics and history - McCarthy's witch-hunts, feminism, Francis Fukuyama and the Holocaust; in philosophy - the work of Derrida, Baudrillard, Foucault, and Heidegger. The book also explores postmodernism's take on today, and the anxious grip of globalization, unpredictable terrorism, and unforeseen war that greeted the dawn of the 21st century.
