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Introducing Postmodernism by Richard Appignanesi

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Introducing Postmodernism by Richard Appignanesi

Author:Richard Appignanesi
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848317604
Publisher: Icon Books


The collapse of so-called “really existing” Socialism in Eastern Europe gave final proof that postmodern scepticism was preferable to modernist hyper-rationalism.

It justified Kristeva’s claim in 1981…

ANY RATIONALIST ATTEMPT TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD INTO ITS OWN IMAGE IS ONLY ONE MORE INTERPRETATION WHICH CANNOT SEE THAT IT EMBRACES A VOID.

For Lyotard, the decline and fall of modernist Grand Narratives was inevitable because of an absolutely decisive shift in knowledge itself. What does he mean by this?



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