general literature?
Jeroen de Boer
What should I read to (in the beginning) getting familiar with a *wide*
range of postmodern ideas by legitimate (oops, that's a term which is
talked about a lot in postmodern society, but I mean writers like
Derrida, Jameson etc.) Are there books who give a good overview?
Thanks!
Jeroen de Boer
Diom3des
Risharcd Harland's "Superstructuralism" is a good overview...it was one of the
first to cover Derrida, Foucault, and people like Deleuze and Baudrillard...
There is a new bk "Postmodern Theory" which looks great, and covers Lyotard as
welll as everyone else, but I forget the authors.
For more specific stuff there is a series of "X: a critical reader." Where x is
your favorite postmodern theorist.
Eli
Nietzsche7
Well, as far as over view is concerned Madan Sarup's "An Introductory guide to
Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism" was a good start. It covers Foucault,
Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, and Baudrillard, explain the orgins of some of the
ideas formulated (many beginning with Nietzsche, or using Hegel as a basis for
refutation), explains feminist currents within the movement (Cixous, Irigaray,
Kristeva: French Feminist Theories), as well as briefly explainingthe
differences between structuralism, poststructuralism, moderninity,
postmoderninity, modernism, and postmodernism, and the "postmodernist
condition". Though Sarup's critiques are sometimes irritating, her explication
ofthe ideas and the people themselves are very insightful. a good starting
point.
Adam
"And if there is still one hellish, truely accursed thing in our time, it is
our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the
stake, signaling through the flames."-Antonin Artaud.
Gregory Broquard
> There is a new bk "Postmodern Theory" which looks great, and covers Lyotard as
> welll as everyone else, but I forget the authors.
Are you thinking of Steven Best and Douglas Kellner's book? I found the overviews
interesting but some of the critical interpretations were almost laughable.
__________
If being nihilist is to privilege this point of inertia and the analysis of this
irreversibility of systems to the point of no return, then I am a nihilist.
If being nihilist is to be obsessed with the mode of disappearance, and no longer
with the mode of production, then I am a nihilist.
Disappearance, aphanisis, implosion, Fury of the Verschwindens.