| Spirits Hovering Over the Ashes: Legacies of Postmodern Theory Contributor(s): Hix, H. L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791425150 ISBN-13: 9780791425152 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 149 |
| LCCN: 94030816 |
| Series: Suny Postmodern Culture |
| Physical Information: (1.04 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a series of topical explorations structured like a sonata, H. L. Hix identifies the consequences of postmodern theory through such issues as grief, freedom, beauty, obscenity, love, and sex to its axiological consequences. A basic motif, postmodernism's distribution of meaning over space rather than time, recurs throughout the chapters, each of which in some way amplifies the book's underlying theme, virtue. The "exposition" of the theme in the first ten chapters receives its "development" in the chapter, "Postmodern Virtue," and its "recapitulation" in the aphorisms of the final chapter. By choosing names like "deconstruction," postmodern theory postures as that which shakes foundations. But any declaration of an end is also a declaration of a beginning, and Spirits Hovering Over the Ashes pushes past the posturing to ask what foundations postmodern theory has laid. |