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In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns--from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed "We are all Greeks," and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of culture and literature since our classical predecessors? Begam and Soderholm's ten dialogues function as a series of dual-meditations that take Plato as an intellectual godfather while presenting a new form of dialogic knowledge based on the friction and frisson of two minds contending, inventing and improvising. The authors discuss not only what is healthy and vigorous about Western culture but also consider where that culture is in retreat, as they seek to understand the legacy of the Enlightenment and its relation to the contemporary moment. Platonic Occasionsis an experiment in criticism that enjoins the reader to imagine what the dialogic imagination can do when inspired by Platonic inquiry, but not bound by a single master and the singular mind. Beyond Socratic maieutics and Cartesian meditation is a form of intellectual interplay where it is impossible not to be of two minds.

Postmodernism.

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Postmodernism --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Humanism. --- Criticism. --- Political aspects.

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Silvio Gaggi's survey of the vast terrain of twentieth century arts and ideas is unique not only for its scope but also for the clarity and cohesiveness it brings to wide-ranging, seemingly disparate works. By identifying underlying epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical issues. Gaggi draws connections among such modern and postmodern masterpieces as Pirandello's and Brecht's theater, Fowles's and Barth's fiction, Warhol's paintings, Godard's and Bergman's films, and Derrida's literary theory.Modern/Postmodern begins with a discussion of the profound skepticism—about traditional beliefs and about our ability to know the self—that lies at the heart of both modernism and postmodernism. Gaggi identifies the modernist response to this doubt as the rejection of mimesis in favor of a purely formalistic or expressionistic art. The postmodern response, on the other hand, is above all to create art that is self-referential (concerned with art itself, the history of art, or its processes). Drawing from the work of Piranadello and Brecht, paradigms that can be applies to many different art works, Gaggi emphasizes how these works from diverse media relate to one another and what their relationships are to the contemporary artistic and philosophical climate. He concentrates on the works themselves, but examines theory as a parallel manifestation of the same obsessions that inform recent literature and art.Gaggi asks, finally, if self-referential art can also be politically and ethically engaged with the reality outside it. He concludes that the postmodern obsession with language, narrativity, and artifice is not necessarily a decadent indulgence but is, at its best, an honest inquiry into the problems, questions, and paradoxes of language.Modern/Postmodern is a lively approach to postmodern art that will interest all students and scholars of contemporary art and literature.

Arts, Modern --- Postmodernism.

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A major study of postmodern developments in Japanese advertising and art

Art --- Postmodernism --- Advertising --- History

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Dekonstruktion ist in aller Munde - entweder als konturloser Pop oder harter, akademischer Brocken. Was steckt hinter diesem widersprüchlichen Begriff? Und lässt er sich »unphilosophisch« erklären? Einerseits ist Dekonstruktion eine Allerweltsvokabel im Feuilleton und im bildungsbürgerlichen Kulturgut. Andererseits ist sie ein hoch theoretisches Werkzeug in den Gemäuern altehrwürdiger Universitäten, vom Charme des Unverständlichen umhüllt. Das Buch versucht, sowohl die zeitgenössische Popularität und Verwässerung als auch die akademische Komplexität zu vermeiden. Stattdessen wird Derridas Wortschöpfung als Perspektive oder Haltung anhand von Beispielen und möglichst ohne den Pomp philosophischer Begriffe vorgestellt. Übrig bleibt eine Denkbewegung, die nicht zu Unrecht für Aufsehen gesorgt hat und dennoch sehr spezifisch ist. Letztlich ist sie vor allem eines: politisch.

Deconstruction. --- Postmodernism. --- Derrida, Jacques.