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Facing Postmodernity : Contemporary French Thought by Max Silverman (1999, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100415128943
ISBN-139780415128940
eBay Product ID (ePID)881279
Product Key Features
Number of Pages208 Pages
Publication NameFacing Postmodernity : Contemporary French Thought
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
SubjectSociology / General, Europe / France, History & Surveys / Modern
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Social Science, History
AuthorMax Silverman
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight10.4 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN98-036493
SynopsisThe book covers some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers. It covers many of the questions central to the postmodern debate, such as questions of history, representation, identity, ethics and community., As readers of texts written in antiquity we frequently find ourselves in the position of one who overhears a conversation without the benefit of its context. The likelihood of humorous (or tragic) misunderstanding is palpable. In Getting the Old Testament: What It Meant to Them, What It Means for Us, Steve Bridge examines a number of important texts and genres found in the Old Testament. By bringing what is known of their original historical and literary context to light, he clearly demonstrates how important it is to know the cultural background of those to whom a text was originally addressed. Bridge helps us as modern readers to grasp the intended significance of these ancient texts. Using modern illustrations from Bart Simpson to fortune cookies, and discussing texts from Genesis to Jonah to Ecclesiastes, Bridge succeeds in making difficult texts come alive for the reader as applying practically to modern life. Each chapter begins with a story, event, or illustration that draws the reader into the point which Bridge wishes to make with regard to the clearest understanding of a particular text or given group of texts. The most poignant of these illustrations is found at the beginning of his chapter on the book of Job, in which he starts with the story of Lou Gehrig and the disease that took his life, ALS (known more commonly as Lou Gehrig's Disease) and which ends with his own father's death from ALS. An annotated list of suggested readings as well as subject and scripture indexes make this a practical book for college classes., Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citizenship. It discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers, both the very well known -Lyotard, Levinas, Derrida - and those who will be less familiar to a non-French audience. In doing so, it addresses the questions central to the postmodern debate whatever country it takes place in; questions of history, of representation, identity and community., Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citizenship. It discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers, both the very well known -Lyotard, Levinas, Derrida - and those who will be less familiar to a non-French audience. In doing so, it addresses the questions central to the postmodern debate whatever country it takes place in; questions of history, of representation, identity and community
LC Classification NumberDC33.7.S575 1999
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