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- Book Title
- Postmodernism Rightly Understood : the Return to Realism in American Thought
- Publication Name
- Postmodernism Rightly Understood
- Title
- Postmodernism Rightly Understood
- Subtitle
- The Return to Realism in American Thought
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0847694267
- EAN
- 9780847694266
- ISBN
- 9780847694266
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Genre
- History, Philosophy
- Release Date
- 29/07/1999
- Release Year
- 1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 11.4 Oz
- Series
- American Intellectual Culture
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Topic
- History & Surveys / Modern, Political, United States / General
- Number of Pages
- 204 Pages
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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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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0847694267
ISBN-13
9780847694266
eBay Product ID (ePID)
411248
Product Key Features
Book Title
Postmodernism Rightly Understood : the Return to Realism in American Thought
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Surveys / Modern, Political, United States / General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
History, Philosophy
Number of Pages
204 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
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B944.P67l38 1999
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Postmodernism Rightly Understood is an admirable, and admirably ambitious, book. Not the least of its ambitions is to show what it is about the character of modern life--and "postmodern" thought-- that renders it so difficult to address the twin problems of love and death and why our humanity requires that we make the effort. Lawler employs an enviable mix of intelligence, learning and wit to make his case. For this reason alone, Postmodernism Rightly Understood deserves to be read widely and debated thoroughly, and not simply by academics., Since many conservatives might be intimidated by such a risky and ambitious project, they can be greatful that Peter Augustine Lawler has shown them the way in his new book. It challenges religious and cultural conservatives to take postmodernism away from the academic Left and to develop it themselves--"rightly understood," of course. Each essay is elegantly writtnen, the five esays hang together nicely because of the way Lawler frames the unifying isuue..., Enlightening treatment of contemporary American intellectual thought in Postmodernism Rightly Understood. The work will be eminently interesting not only to specialists in political philosophy and specialists in political philosophy and students of postmodernism, but even to casual observers of American letters., This is a remarkably insightful book. The understanding of 'modernity' and 'post-modernity' requires serious intellectual effort. Lawler has, in a sense, turned the tables on the usual understanding of 'postmodernity' to ask if there is in it anything that can be 'rightly understood'? This leads him to investigate the American discussion of this issue. He recalls the discussions of classical and medieval thought. The solution to the many modern and post-modern enigmas is a return to a systematically rejected, but unfounded realism. In this he follows the lead of Christopher Lasch and Walker Percy in examining the theses of Fukayama, Rorty, and Allan Bloom. It is an original, brilliant effort., Postmodernism Rightly Understood is an admirable, and admirably ambitious, book. Not the least of its ambitions is to show what it is about the character of modern life--and postmodern thought-- that renders it so difficult to address the twinproblems of love and death and why our humanity requires that we make the effort. Lawler employs an enviable mix of intelligence, learning and wit to make his case. For this reason alone, Postmodernism Rightly Understood deserves to be read widely and debated thoroughly, and not simply by academics., ...admirably ambitious... But Lawler is a gadfly--of that distinctively southern sort, with an eviable combination of intelligence, learning and wit. Lawler's account far surpasses the leading scholarship on Percy....., Enlightening treatment of contemporary American intellectual thought in Postmodernism Rightly Understood . The work will be eminently interesting not only to specialists in political philosophy and specialists in political philosophy and students of postmodernism, but even to casual observers of American letters., Postmodernism Rightly Understood is an admirable, and admirably ambitious, book. Not the least of its ambitions is to show what it is about the character of modern life--and "postmodern" thought-- thatrenders it so difficult to address the twin problems of love and death and why our humanity requires that we make the effort. Lawler employs an enviable mix of intelligence, learning and wit to make his case. For this reason alone, Postmodernism Rightly Understood deserves to be read widely and debated thoroughly, and not simply by academics., Lawler's book on a number of contrasting writers on post-war society and politics of the West is an excellent one. I found Lawler's chapters on Fukuyama, Percy, and Lasch to be models of intellectually provocative commentary. Postmodernism Rightly Understood is a necessary panegyric for competent and dignified citizens for our times., Lawler challenges us to take Post-Modernism away from the academic left and give it to those who see the end of the modern Enlightenment as an opportunity for recovering the truth about God and man formerly known as "moral and metaphysical realism. His work inspires hope that our age of disillusionment can be followed a new age of faith., ...admirably ambitious...But Lawler is a gadfly--of that distinctively southern sort, with an eviable combination of intelligence, learning and wit.Lawler's account far surpasses the leading scholarship on Percy., Lively and engaging . . . represents something of great importance to the authenticity and reality of modern realism. . . . Lawler has, I think, presented a very powerful argument about the real needs of postmodernity.
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
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Lccn
99-013633
Dewey Decimal
149/.97
Series
American Intellectual Culture Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
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