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Postmodernism

A Very Short Introduction

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Postmodernism

By: Christopher Butler
Narrated by: Christine Williams
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Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly engaging introduction, the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged, as they figure in the theory, philosophy, politics, ethics, and artwork of the period, and it is shown how they have interacted within a postmodernist culture.

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This is an excellent condensed explanation of the multifaceted, multidisciplinary, multicultural aspects, postmodernism attempts to criticize. 

A wonderful succinct explanation of the massive phenomenon that is postmodernism. 

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I’ve read/listened to multiple books about this subject, but this book is the only one that gave me a systematic, progressive, noncondescending account and critique of the subject. The only problem is the robotic voice of the narrator, it didn’t bother my understanding, but still it deserves better narration.
Big “Thank You” to the author.

Now I understand what postmodernism is!

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I will listen to this book again. The author took the time to make important points about complicated subjects. Thanks

Basic but it’s gets to the point

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Very good content yet awful narration. A bot reading this would not sound any different.

Awful Narration

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The author could have written the same book by typing in "Describe for me a negative assessment of postmodernism" in ChatGPT. Postmodernism is certainly not perfect, but the author does not give a balanced report. It's so one-sided against that it's not even accurate in terms of just reporting what the actual views are. The author is clearly not a philosopher, and it shows a lot. He has no real grasp of anything he's talking about. He sounds more like a journalist than a field expert who actually comprehends anything he's talking about. Why they had him write this book for the series beats me, but it is by far one of the worst books on philosophy or theory or similar that I have ever seen.

The author has no clue what they are talking about

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