Prefaces to Diaphora

by Peter Carravetta

The central concern of these eight studies and essays is the understanding and critique of culture at the shifty boundaries between the Modem and the Postmodern epochs. The author contends that what needs to be addressed is the very abyss, the "spacetime" between the Modern and the Postmodern worldviews, as well as the tension between aesthetics and ethics, critical discourse and the creative arts, in an effort to rethink multireferential processes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557530041
• ISBN13: 9781557530042
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"