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The Origins of Postmodernity Reprint Edition
Author(s): Perry Anderson (Author)
- Publisher: Verso
- Publication Date: September 17, 1998
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 150 pages
- ISBN-10: 1859842224
- ISBN-13: 9781859842225
Book Description
Where does the idea of the postmodern come from? Who first conceived, and who developed it? How have its meanings changed? What purposes do they serve? These are the questions addressed in The Origins of Postmodernity Reprint Edition. The answers take us from Lima to Angkor, to Paris and Munich, to China and the stars. At the center of the story is the figure of Fredric Jameson, theorist supreme of postmodernism. What happens to art, time, politics, in the age of the spectacle? What has ended, and what has begun?
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About the Author
Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New Old World. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.
