Postmortem for a Postmodernist

ISBN: 9780761989110

出版社: AltaMira Press

出版年: 1997-08-01

页数: 176

定价: USD 24.95

装帧: Textbook Binding

内容简介

You and your students are invited to join the detective, Solomon Hunter, in his hunt for knowledge and a killer. Ettore Gnocchi, the famed postmodern theorist, has been murdered at his own dinner party. To find out who killed Gnocchi, the detective Solomon Hunter must first explore postmodernism itself. What is it? Who are Baudrillard, Foucault, and Habermas, and what do they think? Why does any of this matter, anyway? Teach your students postmodern theory with this fun and enlightening text.