...Jonathan Fine Mouzelis Nicos P. , Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2008 ), 311 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Amir Alexander, Duel...

...Avinoam Rosenak For some years now, an opposition has been drawn, not only among Israeli academics but among politicians and journalists as well, between Jewish nationalist or Zionist thought and the kind of thinking that is called “postmodern.” The argument is that a Zionist cannot...

... Stevens and T. S. Eliot are dismissed as “merely rational,” while H. D. and Duncan himself are elevated to the uppermost ranks, just beneath Ezra Pound. The essay focuses on the peculiarity of “Wardour Street” diction returning to poetry in the postmodern era (especially in the verse of Gjertrud...

...Clifford Geertz Meera Nanda, Prophets Facing Backwards: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003), 288 pp. Duke University Press 2007 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire: An Ecology...

...Mark Franko This article explores the history of dance notation from the Renaissance to postmodern dance. It examines the tension between text and oral tradition in Western dance practices, as well as the issue of how to reconcile our views of choreography as both scriptural and visual. It has been...

... this exploration. Rather than see postmodernism as the inheritor of modernism's silent and disengaged moments, the essay concludes that both seek to examine the disquieting multiplicity of times and the denser, more complicated versions of the present that they engender. Duke University Press 2011 Unfinished...

... of recent vintage. In the days when postmodernism was a technical term used mainly by scholars of art and architecture—and indeed, decades before then—professional historians were grappling with the incapacity of facts to write themselves into a universally satisfying, single version of history. Successive...

...Manfred Frank; Ruth Morris; Barry Allen; Jeffrey M. Perl Frank in this article treats the disagreement between François Lyotard and Jürgen Habermas over whether there are arguments that cannot be decided rationally. Lyotard identifies rational undecidability as the “postmodern condition.” Habermas...

... not only about how our minds work but also about how to invent our own idioms and even our own worlds. And “the dialogue of the mind with itself” that Matthew Arnold assessed as the characteristic modern disease, these most sophisticated of postmodern revisionists redescribe as normative and democratic...

... Orthodox, early Hasidic, Shi'ite, Jain and other Indic, Taoist, and Zen religious traditions. This introduction emphasizes the secular approaches, mostly antipolitical or postphilosophical, that wear the adjective “quietist” metaphorically, including the postmodern currents that Martha Nussbaum has named...

... and his pneumatological realism about the church under postmodern conditions of rapid change and radical diversity. While Ratzinger fears that nonfoundational thought will result in the dictatorial imposition of successively less defensible and lasting sorts of order, for Bergoglio the problem...

..., postmodernists This and meanings. depths resisting while andsimulacra, traces signifiers, and it is thing open to superficially. The individualpostmodern appreciates surfaces The postmodern sensibility is famously but open perceivesto everything every Postmodern Symptoms 10 History and MD...

... to explore how such invocations of “postmodern relativism” operate currently, currently, operate relativism” of“postmodern invocations howsuch explore to profound, intellectual or moral peril. assign the ofa novelfunction contemporary, and distinctly as wellas especially double label that of tendency...

...” (Michael Bennington) for his dialogue with “G” (God). Ivan Karamazov went mad from indecision about faith in God, but postmoderns have supposedly fared better. They have been helped by reading Dostoevsky through Bakhtin’s claim that “every...

... Epstein 3/14/03 10:38 AM Page 189 Postmodernism is a frozen moment, an inflated soap bubble of time. On its fine film, all ages—past and future—are reflected. Its prototype is the exhausted 189 Faust. At the end of all his global travels (I am...

... occasionally and incidentally. Both the orthodox and the postmoderns still want a tight connection between people's politics and their views on large theoretical (theological, metaphysical, epistemological, metaphilosophical) matters. Some postmodernists who initially took my enthusiasm for Derrida to mean...

... has published widely on feminism, modernism, postmodernism, aesthetics, aesthetics, postmodernism, modernism, on feminism, widely published has...

... has published widely on feminism, modernism, postmodernism, aesthetics, aesthetics, postmodernism, modernism, on feminism, widely published has...

... sive simplificationthatthere could be nofacts aboutlife”; social “he emphasized pieces of skeptical postmodern doctrine (“he argued for the comforting and eva and bits with writings his associated why.” obituary The exactly knew anyone...

... the editors to rethink our fidelity to rethinking. Stanley Fish was not alone, after September 11, in being asked if terrorist violence “meant the end of postmodern relativism.” In the New York Common Knowledge 8:2 Copyright 2002 by Duke University Press 284 Times, Fish wrote...