Author

Publication

1995 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

52,000 words, Guess

Page Count

208 pages

Identifiers

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  • Goodreads992012
  • LibraryThing9351894

Classifications

  • DDC149
  • LCCB831.2 .H58 1995

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • SUNY series in postmodern culture

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