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Local Transcendence
Alan Liu
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Description for Local Transcendence
Paperback. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history. This book takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism and digital information technology. Num Pages: 361 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 169 x 25. Weight in Grams: 556.
Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today's society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most local present - the most recent financial quarter, the latest artistic movement, the instant message or blog post at the top of the screen. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history.In the essays collected in "Local Transcendence", Alan Liu takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism - including the new historicism, the new cultural history, cultural ... Read more
Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today's society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most local present - the most recent financial quarter, the latest artistic movement, the instant message or blog post at the top of the screen. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history.In the essays collected in "Local Transcendence", Alan Liu takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism - including the new historicism, the new cultural history, cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
Number of Pages
361
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226486963
SKU
V9780226486963
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About Alan Liu
Alan Liu is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author, most recently, of The Laws of Cool, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Local Transcendence
"This book is a reflection of and on a nearly twenty-year career. It is as much a work of history as of literary and cultural critique, as much a narrative and a piece of performance art as it is philosophical investigation and Nietzschean genealogy. Alan Liu is sui generis." - Marjorie Levinson, University of Michigan"