240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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Culture After Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional western modes of thought in the wake of postmodernist theories of language and identity. Drawing on examples from music, architecture, literature, philosophy and art, Iain Chambers investigates moments of tension, interruptions which transform our perception of the world and test the limits of language, art and technology.
Introduction; Chapter 1 A Question of History; Chapter 2 Earth Frames; Chapter 3 History, the Baroque and the Judgement of Angels; Chapter 4 A Voice in the Dark, A Map of Memory; Chapter 5 Architecture, Amnesia and the Emergent Archaic; Chapter 6 A Stranger in the House; Chapter 7 The Edge of the World;
Biography
Iain Chambers is a professor in the faculty of Arts at the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples. He is the author of Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience (Routledge 1996), Migrancy, Culture, Identity (Routledge 1993) and co-editor of The Postcolonial Question (Routledge 1996).
