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Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American Thought

Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American Thought

Lawler, Peter Augustine

Paperback

Series: American Intellectual Culture

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0847694267
ISBN13: 9780847694266
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jul 29 1999
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.88 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
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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