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The origins of postmodernity

"Where does the idea of the postmodern come from? Who first conceived, and who developed it? How have its meanings changed? What purposes do they serve? These are the questions addressed in The Origins of Postmodernity. The answers take us from Lima to Angkor, to Paris and Munich, to China and the stars. At the center of the story is the figure of Fredric Jameson, theorist supreme of postmodernism. What happens to art, time, politics, in the age of the spectacle? What has ended, and what has begun?"--Book cover.

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  • "Origins of postmodernity"@tr
  • "Origins of Postmodernity"
  • "Origings of Postmodernity"

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  • "Trenchant and panoramic, "The origins of postmodernity" traces the genesis, consolidation and consequences of the notion of the postmodern. Beginning its exhilarating intellectual tour in the Hispanic world of the 1930s, it follows the changes in the meanings and usage of the concept through to the late 1970s, when its adoption by Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jurgen Habermas first gave the idea of postmodernism wider currency. Central attention then falls on Fredric Jameson, whose work today represents the most outstanding general theory of the postmodern. Reconstructing the intellectual and political background of Jameson's interpretation of the present, "The origins of postmodernity" looks at its after-effects in the debates of the 1990s. Anderson enriches his much-cited analysis of modernism by placing postmodernism in the force field of a declasse bourgeoisie, the growth of mediatized technology and the historic global defeat of the left symbolized by the end of the Cold War. Rigorously pursuing his interpretation of postmodernism as the cultural logic of a multinational capitalism "complacent beyond precedent", Anderson ends with a set of historical reflections on the fading of modernism, shifts in the system of the arts, the rise of the spectacular, debates on the "end of art", and on the fate of politics in the postmodern world."
  • ""Where does the idea of the postmodern come from? Who first conceived, and who developed it? How have its meanings changed? What purposes do they serve? These are the questions addressed in The Origins of Postmodernity. The answers take us from Lima to Angkor, to Paris and Munich, to China and the stars. At the center of the story is the figure of Fredric Jameson, theorist supreme of postmodernism. What happens to art, time, politics, in the age of the spectacle? What has ended, and what has begun?"--Book cover."@en

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  • "Hou xian dai de qi yuan = The Origings of Postmodernity"
  • "后现代性的起源"
  • "As origens da pós-modernidade"@pt
  • "Hou xian dai xing de qi yuan"
  • "后现代的起源 = The Origings of Postmodernity"
  • "Hou xian dai xing de qi yuan = The origins of postmodernity"
  • "Postmodernitetens ursprung"@sv
  • "Postmodernitetens ursprung"
  • "後現代性的起源"
  • "The origins of postmodernity"@en
  • "The origins of postmodernity"
  • "Les origines de la postmodernité"
  • "Los orígenes de la posmodernidad"@es
  • "Los orígenes de la posmodernidad"
  • "Postmodernitenin kökenleri"@tr
  • "Postmodernitenin kökenleri"
  • "Los Orígenes de la posmodernidad"
  • "后现代性的起源 = The origins of postmodernity"

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