Life After Postmodernism: Essays on Value and Culture

✍ Scribed by John Fekete (Editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 228
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Life After Postmodernism is a pioneering text on the question of value in the postmodern scene. After a long hiatus in which discussions of value have been eclipsed by death of the subject in post-structuralist theory, this collection of essays suggest that we are on the threshold of a new value debate in contemporary politics, aesthetics, and society.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 7
Introductory Notes for a Postmodern Value Agenda......Page 10
1: Value Without Truth-Value......Page 30
2: Art and the Sociological Ego: Value from a Psychoanalytic Perspective......Page 51
3: Vampire Value, Infinitive Art, and Literary Theory: A Topographic Meditation......Page 93
4: Aesthetic Alienation: Heidegger, Adorno, and Truth at the End of Art......Page 115
5: Interpretation, Interminability, Evaluation: From Nietzsche toward a General Economy......Page 149
6: Diogenes Laertius contra Gadamer: Universal or Historical Hermeneutics?......Page 171
7: Ceci Tuera Cela: Graffiti as Crime and Art......Page 190
8: Panic Value: Bacon, Colville, Baudrillard and the Aesthetics of Deprivation......Page 210
Contributors......Page 223
Index......Page 224