Author: Callinicos, Alex,
Title: Against Postmodernism: a Marxist critique.
Description: NY, St. Martins, (1991). Reprint. G PB. Callinicos challenges the idealist irrationalism of poststructural critique by Foucault, Derrida and others of the. philosophical heritage of the Englightenment; the supposed impasse of High Modern art and its replacement by new artistic forms; and the alleged emergence of post-industrial societies whose structures are beyond the ken of Marx and other theorists of industrial capitalism. Callinicos argues that postmodernims reflects the disappointed revolutionary generation of '68 and the incorporation of many of its members into the professional and managerial 'new middle class'. Callinicos is Lecturer in Politics at the University of York and author of numerous books. Edge wear.

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