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9780847694259

Postmodernism Rightly Understood

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    9780847694259

  • ISBN10:

    0847694259

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-08-01
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Summary

Postmodernism Rightly Understood is a dramatic return to realism--a poetic attempt to attain a true understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the postmodern predicament. Prominent political theorist Peter Augustine Lawler reflects on the flaws of postmodern thought, the futility of pragmatism, and the spiritual emptiness of existentialism.

Author Biography

Peter Augustine Lawler is professor of government at Berry College in Georgia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1(14)
Francis Fukuyama versus the End of History
15(26)
Allan Bloom's Ineffectual Response to Richard Rorty
41(36)
Walker Percy's Twentieth-Century Thomism
77(38)
Sex, Drugs, Politics, Love, and Death
115(42)
Moral Realism versus Therapeutic Elitism
157(22)
The Return to Realism
179(10)
Index 189(6)
About the Author 195

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