Introduction to Postmodernism

Author: (USA) Natoli
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Publication Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book offers us the "facts themselves" refracted by the prism of our contemporary culture, through which the author guides us into a postmodern world order that is "emerging." Using television programs, political talk shows, radio phone-in programs, and popular films as reference points, the focus of this book is not on postmodernism as a movement in art, architecture, and literature, but on the widespread and controversial transformation of how we view the world since the Enlightenment as postmodernity. By portraying Captain Bechek and Commander Deja as our guides and interlocutors in the postmodern debate, Natoli creates a postmodern context in the text. When readers might become lost, they ask questions to interrupt the flow. They shift focus, counter arguments, strip away grandiose rhetoric, and enrich the voices of this "Introduction," erasing any hope that anyone could again offer uninterrupted, monologue-style doctrines of modernity. This text itself is a demonstration of postmodernity. Before delving into the main readings of key postmodern theorists, readers should first start with "An Introduction to Postmodernity" to grasp the key elements of this complex and enigmatic debate and understand why postmodernity is inherently so difficult to define.