The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton

The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton

This critique explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Its primary concern is less with the more intricate formulations of postmodern philosophy than with the culture or milieu of postmodernism as a whole. Above all, it speaks to a particular kind of student or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought. Although Terry Eagleton's view of the topic is, as he says, generally a negative one, he points to postmodernism's strengths as well as its failings. He sets out not just to expose the illusions of postmodernism, but to show the students he has in mind that they never believed what they thought they believed in the first place.

Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include Ideology; The Function of Criticism; Heathcliff and the Great Hunger; Against the Grain; Walter Benjamin; and Criticism and Ideology, all from Verso.

Matthew Beaumont is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at University College London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and the co-author, with Terry Eagleton, of The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009). He has edited or co-edited several collections of essays: As Radical as Reality Itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century; The Railway and Modernity: Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble; Adventures in Realism; and Restless Cities. He is currently writing a book about nightwalking in cities, Midnight Streets.

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Title	The Illusions of Postmodernism
Author	Terry Eagleton
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	1996-10-09
Number of pages	130
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