From Modernism to Postmodernism

From Modernism to Postmodernism
Author: Gerhard Hoffmann
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9401202427

This systemic study discusses in its historical, cultural and aesthetic context the postmodern American novel between the years of 1960 and 1980. A general overview of the various definitions of postmodernism in philosophy, cultural theory and aesthetics provides the framework for the inquiry into more specific problems, such as: the broadening of aesthetics, the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, the transformation of the artistic tradition, the interdependence between modernism and postmodernism, and the change in the aesthetics of fiction. Other topics addressed here include: situationalism, montage, the ordinary and the fantastic, the subject and the character, the imagination, comic modes, and the future of the postmodern strategies. The authors whose fiction is treated in some detail under the various aspects thematized are John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Raymond Federman, William Gaddis, John Hawkes, Jerzy Kosinski, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Ronald Sukenick, and Kurt Vonnegut.

Transcendence and Beyond

Transcendence and Beyond
Author: John D. Caputo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2007
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253348749

A benchmark volume at the intersection of philosophy and religion

Biblical Hermeneutics in the Metamodern Mood

Biblical Hermeneutics in the Metamodern Mood
Author: Seán M. W. McGuire
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2024-07-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Why do contemporary Christians seem to routinely talk past one another amid contentious theological debates? In this illuminating study, Sean M. W. McGuire argues that interpreters' lack of self-critical reflection on the process of interpretation and compounding cultural factors are problematizing interpretive practice. Thus, to work through difficult topics, Christians need to develop the ability to reflect on the complexity informing how they interpret Scripture, and how they see others interpreting Scripture, so that they can coherently and constructively discuss their interpretations with others. Grounding the study in the discipline of practical theology, McGuire utilizes the cultural theory of metamodernism and the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), together with a proposed revision of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, to develop a paradigm for observing and describing differences in biblical interpretive practice. Using current debates regarding sexuality as an illustrative example, the project reveals the complexity underlying contemporary interpretive practice, showing that amid this complexity the prioritization (or lack thereof) of theological reflection sources prompts certain interpretive conclusions. Perceiving the multivalent nature of interpretation, readers will be equipped to think carefully and critically about how they come to their biblical interpretive conclusions and how those conclusions inform transformed living in Christ.

Transcending Postmodernism

Transcending Postmodernism
Author: Raoul Eshelman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2024-12-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040253849

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism. Its main thesis is that, beginning in the mid-1990s, the strategies and norms of postmodernism have been displaced by ones that force readers or viewers to experience effects of aesthetically mediated transcendence. These effects include specific temporal strategies (“chunking”), stylizing separated subjectivity (the genius and the fool being its two main poles) and orienting ethics toward actions taken by centered agents bearing a sacral charge. The book provides a critical overview of other theories of post-postmodernism, and suggests that among five text-oriented theories there is basic agreement on its techniques and strategies.

Immanent Transcendence

Immanent Transcendence
Author: Patrice Haynes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-08-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441162909

Over the last twenty years materialist thinkers in the continental tradition have increasingly emphasized the category of immanence. Yet the turn to immanence has not meant the wholesale rejection of the concept of transcendence, but rather its reconfiguration in immanent or materialist terms: an immanent transcendence. Through an engagement with the work of Deleuze, Irigaray and Adorno, Patrice Haynes examines how the notion of immanent transcendence can help articulate a non-reductive materialism by which to rethink politics, ethics and theology in exciting new ways. However, she argues that contrary to what some might expect, immanent accounts of matter and transcendence are ultimately unable to do justice to material finitude. Indeed, Haynes concludes by suggesting that a theistic understanding of divine transcendence offers ways to affirm fully material immanence, thus pointing towards the idea of a theological materialism.

Beyond Postmodernism

Beyond Postmodernism
Author: Klaus Stierstorfer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2012-05-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110906813

After the veritable hype concerning postmodernism in the 1980s and early 1990s, when questions about when it began, what it means and which texts it comprises were apt to trigger heated discussions, the excitement has notably cooled down at the turn of the century. Voices are now beginning to be heard which seem to suggest a new episteme in the making which points beyond postmodernism, while it remains at the same time very uncertain whether what appears as newness is not rather a return to traditional concepts, theoretical premises, and authorial practices. Contributors to this volume propose to explore new openings and recent developments in anglophone literatures and cultural theories which engage with issues seen to be central in the construction of a postmodern paradigm, but deal with them in ways that promise new openings or a new Zeitgeist.

Interpreting the Postmodern

Interpreting the Postmodern
Author: Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2006-01-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567028808

A collection of feminist, historical, liberation, and constructive theological responses Radical Orthodoxy. >

Beyond the Modern-Postmodern Struggle in Education

Beyond the Modern-Postmodern Struggle in Education
Author: Ilan Gur-Ze'ev
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9087903324

This book is an attempt to historically and conceptually address the present human condition and the current specific role of education as a distinctively creative symbolic violence. In doing so, the book reevaluates the various manifestations and conflicting alternatives to normalizing education.