Knowing and Being: A Postmodern Reversal

by James Richard Mensch

Book Overview

Everyone knows that "postmodernism" implies pluralism, anti-foundationalism, and, generally, a postnormative view of the self and reality. While many embrace it, few bother to tell us what is wrong with modernity. What are the problems that brought about its crisis and ultimate demise as a philosophical and cultural movement? What are the lessons for the postmodern movement that can he drawn from them? James Mensch here explains why modernism failed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271015543
• ISBN13: 9780271015545
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"