Postmodern Conditions
Edited by Andrew Milner, Philip Thomson and Chris Worth
Berg, Oxford, xv + 208
pp., 1990
Australian edition: Centre for General and
Comparative Literature, Monash University, Melbourne, xv + 198 pp.,
1988
Postmodernity and postmodernism have become leading theoretical issues in the discussion of contemporary culture. To what extent does western society's entry into a post-industrial world require us to rethink the characteristic moderist understanding of society and culture? If it is true that our age is one where a sense of being modern has been replaced by a sense of being postmodern, is this a good or bad development? Is postmodernism in art complicit with the processes of post-industrial capitalism or subversive of them? All the contributors tackle such issues from differing perspectives and disciplines.
'a splendid collection ... the editors should be thanked and congratulated'- Zygmunt Bauman, Professor of Sociology, the University of Leeds, Thesis Eleven)
'Postmodern Conditions maintains ... critical distance and political engagement, while still being part of the diverse and shifting formation of the postmodern. Perhaps time is on Postmodern Conditions' side' - Margaret Henderson, Journal of Australian Studies)