Description
Where does the idea of the postmodern come from? Who first conceived, and who developed it? How have its meanings changed? What purposes do they serve? These are the questions addressed in The Origins of Postmodernity. The answers take us from Lima to Angkor, to Paris and Munich, to China and the stars. At the center of the story is the figure of Fredric Jameson, theorist supreme of postmodernism. What happens to art, time, politics, in the age of the spectacle? What has ended, and what has begun?
Author: Perry Anderson
Publisher: Verso
Published: 09/17/1998
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.40w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9781859842225
ISBN10: 1859842224
BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General
Author: Perry Anderson
Publisher: Verso
Published: 09/17/1998
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.40w x 0.48d
ISBN13: 9781859842225
ISBN10: 1859842224
BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General
About the Author
Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New Old World. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.