When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age

When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age
ISBN-10
0870499181
ISBN-13
9780870499180
Category
History
Pages
214
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Author
Bruce J. Evensen

Description

An anthology of 31 essays by the philosophically gifted selected by the editors as historically significant to the "post" in postmodernism, exhibiting the shift away from documentation and interpretation to an exploration of significance. The collection begins with Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes, traveling into 19th century social theory with Marx and Nietzsche, the challenges to those theories presented by Dewey and Kuhn, and the deconstruction of modernity with Foucault, Derrida, and Cornel West. In the final section, Habermas and Benhabib (among others) respond to postmodernism, taking us into the post postmodern contexts of the future. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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