01396nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800350007608200150011110000170012624500490014326000430019230000190023536500070025452008960026165000140115765000150117170000160118620260605143037.0260605b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781874166214  aDonated by Prof. Romila Thapar  a801.95 APP  aPowell, Jim.  a Postmodernism for beginners.c/ Jim Powell.  aNew Delhib : Orient longman c, 2001.  a170p.c: 24cm.  b00  aIf you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you.

Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction to the most profound spiritual and philosophical crisis of our time – the failure of the Enlightenment.

Jim Powell takes the position that Postmodernism is a series of “maps” that help people find their way through a changing world. Postmodernism For Beginners features the thoughts of Foucault on power and knowledge, Jameson on mapping the postmodern, Baudrillard on the media, Harvey on time-space compression, Derrida on deconstruction and Deleuze and Guattari on rhizomes. The book also discusses postmodern artifacts such as Madonna, cyberpunk, Buddhist ecology, and teledildonics.  aModernism  aLiterature  aJim Powell