- Editorial:
- ROUTLEDGE
- Materia
- Literary criticism
- ISBN:
- 978-0-415-12893-3
FACING POSTMODERNITY : CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT
SILVERMAN, MAX
Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citizenship. It discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers, both the very well known -Lyotard, Levinas, Derrida - and those who will be less familiar to a non-French audience. In doing so, it addresses the questions central to the postmodern debate whatever country it takes place in; questions of history, of representation, identity and community.