Rediscovering Values: Coming to Terms with Postmodernism: Coming to Terms with Postmodernism

by Curtler,Hugh Mercer

• ISBN13: 9780765600592
• ISBN10: 0765600595
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The author's primary purpose in this short book is to clearly define the nature of value and restore it to a central place in discussions of ethical and aesthetic problems. He begins the book with a broad cultural perspective on the issue of postmodernism in general, then takes a closer look at recent attempts to reduce values to evaluation, to deny their objectivity. The central chapter focuses on the question, "What Is Value?" after which Curtler discusses values in the fine arts and literature, concluding with the question of values in education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	3	(8)
Chapter 1. Inverted Consciousness and the Eclipse of Values	11	(16)
Chapter 2. The Postmodern Challenge	27	(26)
Chapter 3. The Rejection of Values	53	(23)
Chapter 4. What Are Values?	76	(26)
Chapter 5. Values in the Arts	102	(24)
Chapter 6. Greatness in Literature	126	(19)
Chapter 7. Values and the Great Conversation	145	(18)
Postscript. In Defense of Values	163	(6)
Bibliography	169	(6)
Index	175