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What on earth is postmodernism? Here, finally, is the perfect audio guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to spell it out our cultural condition of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Postmodernism claims that "modernity", which grew from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution and Marxism, has collapsed. We now reside in an endlessly "contemporary" culture, a virtual world of "hyperreality" containing such strange phenomena as post-Holocaust amnesia, Disneyland, cyberspace, and Fukuyama's proclaimed "end of history". Richard Appignanesi, author of the best-selling book Introducing Postmodernism, takes the listener on a roller-coaster ride through the main element regions of postmodern debate and explains the requirements of structuralism, semiotics, and deconstruction as produced by Foucault, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, while others. It is a crucial guide for anybody attempting to understand the hall of mirrors that is postmodernism.
