The Postmodern Adventure: Science Technology and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium - Softcover

Best, Steven; Kellner, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041523963X ISBN 13: 9780415239639

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

This compelling book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the successor of Best and Kellner's two previous books, Postmodern Theory, acclaimed as the best critical introduction to the field - and The Postmodern Turn, which provides a powerful mapping of postmodern developments developments in the arts, politics, science, and theory. In The Postmodern Adventure, Best and Kellner analyze a broad array of literary, cultural, and political phenomena from fiction, film, science, and the Internet, to globalization and the rise of a transnational image culture.

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About the Author

Steven Best is Assoeiate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. The author of The Polities cif Historical Vision, he is eoauthor (with Douglas Kellner) of Postmodern Theory and The Postmodern Turn.,

Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Edueation at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is coauthor of Postmodern Theory and The Postmodern Turn, and author of several other books on social theory, polities, history, and culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041523963X
• ISBN 13: 9780415239639
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320