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 Free Download David R. Dickens, Andrea Fontana, "Postmodernism and Social Inquiry" English | 2015 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0898624150, 1857283651 | PDF | 6,8 mb Literature dealing with postmodernism-or with the tension between modernity and postmodernity-has been confined primarily within the domains of philosophy, literature, and the arts. Integrating philosophy and the humanities with sociological theory and research methods, this pioneering volume is one of the first books to address the relevance of postmodernism to the social sciences and to explore the application of postmodern thinking to the study of society.  Free Download Olga Petrovskaya, "Nursing Theory, Postmodernism, Post-structuralism, and Foucault " English | ISBN: 1032047283 | 2022 | 188 pages | EPUB, PDF | 626 KB + 5 MB Nursing Theory, Postmodernism, Post-structuralism, and Foucault critiques mainstream American nursing theory and its use of post-structural theory, comparing and contrasting how postmodern and post-structural ideas have been used fruitfully in nursing research and theorizing elsewhere.  Free Download American Studies after Postmodernism by Theodora Tsimpouki, Konstantinos Blatanis English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031414470 | 340 Pages | True PDF | 5.3 MB  Free Download Christian Moraru, "Memorious Discourse: Reprise And Representation in Postmodernism" English | 2005 | pages: 282 | ISBN: 0838640869 | PDF | 1,5 mb  Free Download Madhu Dubey, "Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism" English | 2003 | pages: 294 | ISBN: 0226167275, 0226167267 | PDF | 1,2 mb Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy.
 Free Download Kelly Pender, "Techne, from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism: Understanding Writing as a Useful, Teachable Art" English | 2011 | pages: 199 | ISBN: 1602352070, 1602352089 | PDF | 3,7 mb Kelly Pender's final provocative suggestion-that it is precisely through the apparent opposition between "closed" and "open" that writing itself has been marginalized within the writing classroom-is an extraordinarily insightful point, one that deserves serious consideration within the rhetoric and composition community. -John Muckelbauer, author of Invention and the Future: Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Change The word techne has no equivalent in English and so is usually understood as one of the three terms that approximate its original Greek meaning: art, skill, craft. As a kind of productive knowledge, techne is often defined by its close association with rationality and instrumentality. TECHNE, FROM NEOCLASSICISM TO POSTMODERNISM: UNDERSTANDING WRITING AS A USEFUL, TEACHABLE ART is a book about the relationships among the many meanings of this complex term. Kelly Pender tells the story of techne's presence in the development of rhetoric and composition as an academic discipline in the mid-twentieth century, the influence of postmodern theory on that development, and what is often taught or not taught under the rubric of "writing" in contemporary composition courses. The arguments TECHNE, FROM NEOCLASSICISM TO POSTMODERNISM makes about these relationships are deconstructive and seek to challenge some of the field's most firmly entrenched binaries about what writing is and how (or if) it should be taught. To make these arguments, TECHNE, FROM NEOCLASSICISM TO POSTMODERNISM uses Samuel Weber's retranslation of the Heideggerian term "Ge-stell" as a form of emplacement to show how composition theories and pedagogies based on techne work simultaneously to both "close down" and "open up" possibilities for experiencing writing as an inherently valuable, nonrational mode of bringing-forth. KELLY PENDER holds a PhD in English from Purdue University. She is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches courses in professional writing, public discourse, critical theory, and classical rhetoric. She has presented papers at numerous conferences, and her work has appeared in journals such as Postmodern Culture, Composition Studies, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Her research interests include the history and theory of rhetoric and composition, critical theory, and, medical rhetoric, particularly rhetorics of genetic risk and disease prevention.  Free Download Steven G. Medema, "Economics and the Law: From Posner to Postmodernism and Beyond - Second Edition" English | 2006 | pages: 399 | ISBN: 0691125724 | PDF | 4,4 mb This is an expanded second edition of Nicholas Mercuro and Steven Medema's influential book Economics and the Law, whose publication in 1998 marked the most comprehensive overview of the various schools of thought in the burgeoning field of Law and Economics. Each of these competing yet complementary traditions has both redefined the study of law and exposed the key economic implications of the legal environment. The book remains true to the scope and aims of the first edition, but also takes account of the field's evolution.
 Free Download Carlton Smith, "Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fictions of the Transcultural Frontier" English | 2000 | pages: 179 | ISBN: 1584650206 | PDF | 21,8 mb Exploring the cultural and literary borderlands between Native American, postcolonial, and postmodern theories of cultural representation, Carlton Smith explicates Frederick Jackson Turner's famous frontier thesis in terms of the repressed Other. Through readings of six important contemporary works by innovative writers, Smith provides rich insight into "minority" versions of the frontier.  Nigel A. Raab, "The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age " English | ISBN: 0367896796 | 2020 | 210 pages | EPUB | 569 KB The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists. Over the past two generations, humanists have come to take basic postmodern theories for granted whether on language, knowledge or time. Yet Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and similar philosophers developed their ideas when the impact of this digital world could barely be imagined. The digital world, built on algorithms and massive amounts of data, operates on radically different principles.  Raoul Eshelman, "Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism" English | 2008 | ISBN: 1888570415 | PDF | pages: 288 | 11.6 mb There is a widespread feeling that postmodernism is on its way out. However, up to now there has been no attempt to define what the epoch after it would look like. Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism is the first book to offer a systematic theory of culture after postmodernism. The book maintains that we have entered a new, monist epoch in which aesthetically imposed belief replaces endless irony as the dominant force in culture. This new cultural dominant, which I call performatism, works by artificially "framing" readers or viewers in such a way that they have no choice but to accept the external givens of a work and identify with the characters within it. In short, they are forcibly made to believe-if only within an particular aesthetic context. This basic procedure can be shown to operate not only in narrative genres like film and literature, but also in visual ones like art and architecture. This new aesthetic is documented in well-known films and novels such as American Beauty, The Celebration, Life of Pi, Middlesex, and The God of Small Things as well as in the work of major architects and artists such as Sir Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Andreas Gursky, Neo Rauch, and Vanessa Beecroft. |
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