Overview
- Argues that postmodernity is still useful, particularly in the area of ethics, to systematically distinguish the contemporary world from earlier eras
- Uses balanced language to describe of changes that modernity has undergone in the late 20th and early 21st centuries
- Combines diverse subject areas to give readers a broad overview
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About this book
In this book, Reinhold Kramer explores a variety of important social changes, including the resistance to objective measures of truth, the rise of “How-I-Feel” ethics, the ascendancy of individualism, the immersion in cyber-simulations, the push toward globalization and multilateralism, and the decline of political and religious faiths. He argues that the displacement, since the 1990s, of grand narratives by ego-based narratives and small narratives has proven inadequate, and that selective adherence, pluralist adaptation, and humanism are more worthy replacements. Relying on evolutionary psychology as much as on Charles Taylor, Kramer argues that no single answer is possible to the book title’s question, but that the term “postmodernity” – referring to the era, not to postmodernism – still usefully describes major currents within the contemporary world.
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About the author
Reinhold Kramer is a professor at Brandon University in Canada. He is the author of Scatology and Civility in the English-Canadian Novel and Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain (winner of a Jewish Book Award and the Gabrielle Roy Prize).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Are We Postmodern Yet?
Book Subtitle: And Were We Ever?
Authors: Reinhold Kramer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30569-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30568-0Published: 19 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30571-0Published: 19 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30569-7Published: 08 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 328
Topics: Postmodern Philosophy, Postmodern Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies