Postmodernism Rightly Understood

Postmodernism Rightly Understood
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9781461641094
ISBN-13 : 1461641098
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Download or read book Postmodernism Rightly Understood written by Peter Augustine Lawler and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999-07-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism Rightly Understood is a dramatic return to realism—a poetic attempt to attain a true understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the postmodern predicament. Prominent political theorist Peter Augustine Lawler reflects on the flaws of postmodern thought, the futility of pragmatism, and the spiritual emptiness of existentialism. Lawler examines postmodernism by interpreting the writings of five respected and best selling American authors—Francis Fukuyama, Richard Rorty, Allan Bloom, Walker Percy, and Christopher Lasch. Lawler explains why the alternatives available in our time are either a "soulless niceness," which Fukuyama, Rorty, and Bloom described as the result of modern success, or a postmodern moral responsibility that accompanies love in the ruins, as articulated by Percy and Lasch. This is a fresh and compelling look at the crisis of the human soul and intellect accompanied by the onset of postmodernity.


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