Rediscovering Values: Coming to Terms with Postmodernism

by Hugh Mercer Curtler

The author's primary purpose in this short book is to clearly define the nature of value and restore it to a central place in discussions of ethical and aesthetic problems. He begins the book with a broad cultural perspective on the issue of postmodernism in general, then takes a closer look at recent attempts to reduce values to evaluation, to deny their objectivity. The central chapter focuses on the question, "What Is Value?" after which Curtler...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765600595
• ISBN13: 9780765600592
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary