In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty, and Postmodern Identity

by Ted Hiebert

Book Overview

What is truth in an age of uncertainty? The artistic generation of the late-twentieth century has grown up immersed in the delirious imagination of postmodern thought, which insists upon the ultimate uncertainty of meaning and that there is no self-evident truth. In Praise of Nonsense explores the possibilities and parameters of a postmodern imagination freed from the philosophical responsibilities of fiction, fact, and replication of lived experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773539743
• ISBN13: 9780773539747
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"