Guide to Contemporary Culture

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The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, have blown up. The postmodern age has begun.
Just what is postmodernism? The average person would be shocked by its creed: truth, meaning and individual identity do not exist. Humán life has no special significance, no more value than animal or plánt life. Ali social relationships, all institutions, all morál values are expressions and masks of the primal will to power.
Alarmingly, these ideas have gripped universities, which turn out lawyers, judges, writers, journalists, teachers and other culture-shapers. Postmodernist ideas have seeped into films, television, art, literature, politics, and, without his knowing it, into the head of the average person in the Street.
This book offers clear guidance to those who want to understand what is happening in our society today.
In the 70s and 80s Franc is Schaefferand Os Guinness helped us to engage... Tovább

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The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, have blown up. The postmodern age has begun.
Just what is postmodernism? The average person would be shocked by its creed: truth, meaning and individual identity do not exist. Humán life has no special significance, no more value than animal or plánt life. Ali social relationships, all institutions, all morál values are expressions and masks of the primal will to power.
Alarmingly, these ideas have gripped universities, which turn out lawyers, judges, writers, journalists, teachers and other culture-shapers. Postmodernist ideas have seeped into films, television, art, literature, politics, and, without his knowing it, into the head of the average person in the Street.
This book offers clear guidance to those who want to understand what is happening in our society today.
In the 70s and 80s Franc is Schaefferand Os Guinness helped us to engage modernity. But western culture is changing at an alarming pace. Already we are in the 'postmodern' world and a newapproach is needed. Gene Veith's Guide to Contemporary Culture is a welcome contribution.
Roy Clements: MinisterEden Baptist Church Cambridge
Gene Edward Veith is Dean of the School of Árts and Sciences and Associate Professor of English at Concordia University, Wisconsin. Vissza