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008			960404s1996 mau b 00100 eng
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020			_a0631203230 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aB831.2 _b.E18 1996
090			_aB831.2 _bEag
100	1	0	_aEagleton, Terry _d, 1943- _zEAG
245	1	4	_aThe illusions of postmodernism _c/ Terry Eagleton.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _b: Blackwell Publishers, _c1996.
300			_ax, 147 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
520			_aIn this brilliant new critique, Terry Eagleton explores the beginnings, ambivalences, histories, subjects, fallacies and contradictions of postmodernism. Concerned less with recherche formulations of postmodern philosophy than with the culture or milieu, or even the sensibility, of postmodernism as a whole, he has in his sights, above all, a particular kind of student, or consumer, of 'popular' brands of postmodern thought. Although Professor Eagleton's view of the topic is, as he says, generally a negative one, he draws attention equally to postmodernism's strengths as well as its failings. He sets out not just to expose the illusory, but, by subtly grounded argument, to show the students he has in mind that they never believed what they thought they believed in the first place. In the process his devastating gifts for irony and satire sharpen the reader's pleasure, just as his commitment to the ethical and the vision of a just society inspire engagement and 'a refusal to acquiesce in the appalling mess which is the contemporary world'.
650		0	_aPostmodernism.
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS
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