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- catalog abstract "In this reassessment of a little studied decade, J. David Hoeveler, Jr., finds that the sense of detachment and dislocation that characterizes the postindustrial society serves as a paradigm for American thought and culture in the 1970s. The book examines major developments in literary theory, philosophy, architecture, and painting as expressions of a 1970s consciousness. It also looks at the rival "political" readings of these subjects and considers the postmodernist phenomenon as it became an ideological battleground in the decade. Although the new continental thinking promised to revitalize the American Left, Hoeveler shows how the American readings actually fortified more traditional norms in American thought. Thus, as the works of Claude Levi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida gained much attention in academic circles, American readings domesticated the European concepts. The Yale School of critics receives particular attention, as do historian Hayden White, anthropologist Clifford Geertz, literary scholar Edward Said, and a host of other important participants in the intellectual debates of the 1970s. Hoeveler also treats the merging of postmodernist thought with the older American tradition of pragmatism. In his insightful analysis of Richard Rorty's seminal works from the 1970s, Hoeveler reveals a strain of postmodernist thought that is liberal, playful, and creative, and, as he suggests, an "ideal that might best assure the American tradition a viable future."".
- catalog contributor b9968052.
- catalog contributor b9968053.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1970-".
- catalog coverage "United States Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "In this reassessment of a little studied decade, J. David Hoeveler, Jr., finds that the sense of detachment and dislocation that characterizes the postindustrial society serves as a paradigm for American thought and culture in the 1970s. The book examines major developments in literary theory, philosophy, architecture, and painting as expressions of a 1970s consciousness. It also looks at the rival "political" readings of these subjects and considers the postmodernist phenomenon as it became an ideological battleground in the decade. Although the new continental thinking promised to revitalize the American Left, Hoeveler shows how the American readings actually fortified more traditional norms in American thought. Thus, as the works of Claude Levi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida gained much attention in academic circles, American readings domesticated the European concepts. The Yale School of critics receives particular attention, as do historian Hayden White, anthropologist Clifford Geertz, literary scholar Edward Said, and a host of other important participants in the intellectual debates of the 1970s. Hoeveler also treats the merging of postmodernist thought with the older American tradition of pragmatism. In his insightful analysis of Richard Rorty's seminal works from the 1970s, Hoeveler reveals a strain of postmodernist thought that is liberal, playful, and creative, and, as he suggests, an "ideal that might best assure the American tradition a viable future."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-216) and index.".
- catalog description "Postindustrialism -- Wars of words -- Reading left -- Postmodernism I, painting -- Postmodernism II, architecture -- Writing feminist -- Debating black -- Neoconservatism -- On liberalism.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 225 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Postmodernist turn.".
- catalog identifier "0805790640 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Postmodernist turn.".
- catalog isPartOf "Twayne's American thought and culture series".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall,".
- catalog relation "Postmodernist turn.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1970-".
- catalog spatial "United States Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "973.924 20".
- catalog subject "E169.12 .H6 1996".
- catalog subject "Nineteen seventies.".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Postindustrialism -- Wars of words -- Reading left -- Postmodernism I, painting -- Postmodernism II, architecture -- Writing feminist -- Debating black -- Neoconservatism -- On liberalism.".
- catalog title "The postmodernist turn : American thought and culture in the 1970s / J. David Hoeveler, Jr.".
- catalog type "text".