'Since at Least Plato ...' and Other Postmodernist Myths
Martin Devaney
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Paperback. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
'Since at Least Plato...' and Other Postmodernist Myths surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and criticizes some of the most common claims found in them about philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques to metaphysics, epistemology, and political ideologies. Devaney finds the accounts offered by these theories of concepts ranging from the law of noncontradiction to relativity and the Uncertainty Principle to be as ill-informed as they are pervasive. Devaney shows how the use to which these accounts have been put in constructing the story of the progression from realism to postmodernism to modernism flattens out both the ... Read more
'Since at Least Plato...' and Other Postmodernist Myths surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and criticizes some of the most common claims found in them about philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques to metaphysics, epistemology, and political ideologies. Devaney finds the accounts offered by these theories of concepts ranging from the law of noncontradiction to relativity and the Uncertainty Principle to be as ill-informed as they are pervasive. Devaney shows how the use to which these accounts have been put in constructing the story of the progression from realism to postmodernism to modernism flattens out both the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349399987
SKU
V9781349399987
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About Martin Devaney
M.J.DEVANEY
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