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Above All Earthly Pow'rs: Christ in a Postmodern Worldby David F. WellsISBN 1844741060 (1-84474-106-0)
Hardcover, W.B. Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Above All Earthly Pow'rs: Christ in a Postmodern World'Book summary:In our postmodern world, every view has a place at the table but none has the final say. How should the church confess Christ in todays cultural context? Above All Earthly Powrs, the fourth and final volume of the series that began in 1993 with No Place for Truth, portrays the West in all its complexity, brilliance, and emptiness. As David F. Wells masterfully depicts it, the postmodern ethos of the West is relativistic, individualistic, therapeutic, and yet remarkably spiritual. Wells shows how this postmodern ethos has incorporated into itself the new religious and cultural relativism, the fear and confusion, that began with the last centurys waves of immigration and have continued apace in recent decades. Wellss book culminates in a critique of contemporary evangelicalism aimed at both unsettling and reinvigorating readers. Churches that market themselves as relevant and palatable to consumption-oriented postmoderns are indeed swelling in size. But they are doing so, Wells contends, at the expense of the truth of the gospel. By placing a premium on marketing rather than truth, the evangelical church is in danger of trading authentic engagement with culture for worldly success. Welding extensive cultural analysis with serious theology, Above All Earthly Powrs issues a prophetic call that the evangelical church cannot afford to ignore. [via]
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- Above All Earthly Pow'rs: Christ in a Postmodern World: ISBN 0802824552 (0-8028-2455-2)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co - Above All Earthly Pow'rs: Christ In A Postmodern World: ISBN 0802829023 (0-8028-2902-3)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co - Above All Earthly Pow'rs: Christ in a Postmodern World: ISBN 1844741060 (1-84474-106-0)
Hardcover, W.B. Eerdmans Pub Co
- Above All Earthly Pow'rs: Christ in a Postmodern World: ISBN 0802824552 (0-8028-2455-2)
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The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Cultureby Hal FosterISBN 1565847423 (1-56584-742-3)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture'Book summary:For the past few decades Hal Foster's critical gaze has encompassed the increasingly complex machinery of the culture industry. His observations push the boundaries of cultural criticism to establish a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. The Anti-Aesthetic is a touchstone volume for postmodern debate and theory. Though the cultural stakes and terms have changed over the last decade, this collection still illuminates--perhaps now even more lucidly--a vital current in contemporary criticism. Contributors: Jean Baudrillard, Douglas Crimp, Kenneth Frampton, Jrgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Edward Said, and Gregory Ulmer. [via]
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- The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture: ISBN 1565844629 (1-56584-462-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture: ISBN 0941920011 (0-941920-01-1)
Softcover, Bay Pr - The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture: ISBN 094192002X (0-941920-02-X)
Hardcover, Bay Press - The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture: ISBN 1565847423 (1-56584-742-3)
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- The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture: ISBN 1565844629 (1-56584-462-9)
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Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Churchby D. A. CarsonISBN 0310259479 (0-310-25947-9)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church'Book summary:A careful and informed assessment of the 'emerging church' by a respected author and scholar The 'emerging church' movement has generated a lot of excitement and exerts an astonishingly broad influence. Is it the wave of the future or a passing fancy? Who are the leaders and what are they saying? The time has come for a mature assessment. D. A. Carson not only gives those who may be unfamiliar with it a perceptive introduction to the emerging church movement, but also includes a skillful assessment of its theological views. Carson addresses some troubling weaknesses of the movement frankly and thoughtfully, while at the same time recognizing that it has important things to say to the rest of Christianity. The author strives to provide a perspective that is both honest and fair. Anyone interested in the future of the church in a rapidly changing world will find this an informative and stimulating read. D. A. Carson (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is the author of over 45 books, including the Gold Medallion Award-winning book The Gagging of God, and is general editor of Telling the Truth and Worship by the Book. He has served as a pastor and is an active guest lecturer in church and academic settings around the world. [via]
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Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Contextby Stanley Grenz, John R. FrankeISBN 0664257690 (0-664-25769-0)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context'Book summary:The authors move past the Enlightenment foundational approach to offer a revolutionary methodology for doing theology in a postmodern age. Their method uses three sources: the Spirit speaking authoritatively through the biblical text, tradition providing a historical interpretive framework; and culture as context for constructive theological reflection.
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Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spiritualityby Donald MillerISBN 0785263705 (0-7852-6370-5)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality'Book summary:I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve...I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.In Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned out, and, once again, far away from God. In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally relevant, infinitely loving God. [via]
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Challenge of Postmodernism: An Evangelical Engagementby David DockeryISBN 1564764109 (1-56476-410-9)
Softcover, Cook Communications Ministries intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Challenge of Postmodernism: An Evangelical Engagement'Book summary:Learn how to reach a new generation in a rapidly changing world with the unchanging gospel. [via]
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Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern Worldby Timothy R. Phillips, Dennis L. OkholmISBN 083081860X (0-8308-1860-X)
Softcover, Intervarsity Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World'Book summary:Evangelicals are beginning to provide analyses of our postmodern society, but little has been done to suggest an effective apologetic strategy for reaching a culture that is pluralistic, consumer-oriented, and infatuated with managerial and therapeutic approaches to life. This, then, is the first book to address that vital task. In these pages some of evangelicalism's most stimulating thinkers consider three possible apologetic responses to postmodernity. William Lane Craig argues that traditional evidentialist apologetics remains viable and preferable. Roger Lundin, Nicola Creegan and James Sire find the postmodern critique of Christianity and Western culture more challenging, but reject central features of it. Philip Kenneson, Brian Walsh and J. Richard Middleton, on the other hand, argue that key aspects of postmodernity can be appropriated to defend orthodox Christianity. An essential feature are trenchent chapters by Ronald Clifton Potter, Dennis Hollinger and Douglas Webster considering issues facing the local church in light of postmodernity. The volumes editors and John Stackhouse also add important introductory essays that orient the reader to postmodernity and various apologetic strategies. All this makes for a book indispensable for theologians, a wide range of students and reflective pastors. [via]
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The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrixby Brian D. McLarenISBN 0310252199 (0-310-25219-9)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix'Book summary:Tested strategies for pastors and churches that want to be somewhere else in the postmodern world and need reliable and practical help to get there. Now revised and expanded. Formerly titled Reinventing Your Church. [via]
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Changeby David HarveyISBN 0631162941 (0-631-16294-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change'Book summary:The Condition of Postmodernity is David Harvey's seminal history of this, our most equivocal of eras. What does postmodernism mean? Where did it come from? Harvey, a Professor of Geography, and a key mover behind extending the scope and influence of the discipline of geography itself, does a thorough job here delineating the passage through to postmodernity and the economic, social and political changes that underscored and accompanied it. As he clearly states, the rise in postmodernist cultural forms is related to a new intensity in what Harvey terms "time-space compression" but this new intensity is a qualitive and not a quantitive change in social organisation and does not point to a era beyond capitalism as "the basic rules of capitalistic accumulation" remain unchanged. Unlike Fredric Jameson (whose equally rewarding Postmodernism stands as the twin pillar to Harvey's critique), who explicitly relies on Ernest Mandel's periodisation of Late Capitalism, Harvey eschews a narrowly economic focus, the limits and contradictions of production that have led to the rise in the service sector, and takes a more multidisciplinary approach to his history: as comfortable discussing Manet as he is labour markets. Harvey is an excellent writer and The Condition of Postmodernity is an exceptionally informative and enjoyable read. Mark Thwaite [via]
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The Crying of Lot 49by Thomas PynchonISBN 1568493207 (1-56849-320-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crying of Lot 49'Book summary:The Crying of Lot 49, a novel by Thomas Pynchon. [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins - The Crying of Lot 49: ISBN 0397004184 (0-397-00418-4)
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- The Crying of Lot 49: ISBN 006091307X (0-06-091307-X)
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The Crying of Lot Forty-Nineby Thomas PynchonISBN 0553236911 (0-553-23691-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crying of Lot Forty-Nine'Book summary:The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.
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Don Delilloby Harold BloomISBN 079107031X (0-7910-7031-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Delillo'Book summary:Harold Bloom suggests Don DeLillo's work holds a proleptic sense of the triumph of terror. This text offers critical views on numerous DeLillo novels, including The Names, Mao II, Libra, White Noise, and Underworld. This edition of Bloom's Major Novelists will help any student delve into the work of this contemporary writer.
This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. Titles include detailed plot summaries of the novel, extracts from scholarly critical essays on the novels, a complete bibliography of the writer's novels, and more. [via]
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Don Delillo's White Noiseby Harold Bloom, Jesse ZubaISBN 0791070441 (0-7910-7044-1)
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Scienceby Jean Bricmont, Alan D. SokalISBN 0312204078 (0-312-20407-8)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science'Book summary:In 1996, an article entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was published in the cultural studies journal Social Text. Packed with recherché quotations from "postmodern" literary theorists and sociologists of science, and bristling with imposing theorems of mathematical physics, the article addressed the cultural and political implications of the theory of quantum gravity. Later, to the embarrassment of the editors, the author revealed that the essay was a hoax, interweaving absurd pronouncements from eminent intellectuals about mathematics and physics with laudatory--but fatuous--prose.
In Fashionable Nonsense, Alan Sokal, the author of the hoax, and Jean Bricmont contend that abuse of science is rampant in postmodernist circles, both in the form of inaccurate and pretentious invocation of scientific and mathematical terminology and in the more insidious form of epistemic relativism. When Sokal and Bricmont expose Jacques Lacan's ignorant misuse of topology, or Julia Kristeva's of set theory, or Luce Irigaray's of fluid mechanics, or Jean Baudrillard's of non-Euclidean geometry, they are on safe ground; it is all too clear that these virtuosi are babbling.
Their discussion of epistemic relativism--roughly, the idea that scientific and mathematical theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions--is less convincing, however, in part because epistemic relativism is not as intrinsically silly as, say, Regis Debray's maunderings about Gödel, and in part because the authors' own grasp of the philosophy of science frequently verges on the naive. Nevertheless, Sokal and Bricmont are to be commended for their spirited resistance to postmodernity's failure to appreciate science for what it is. --Glenn Branch [via]
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The Foucault Readerby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394713400 (0-394-71340-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foucault Reader'Book summary:Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.
The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor.
This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it. [via]More editions of The Foucault Reader:
The Foucault Readerby Paul Rabinow, Michel FoucaultISBN 0394529049 (0-394-52904-9)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralismby D. A. CarsonISBN 031024286X (0-310-24286-X)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism'Book summary:Author D.A. Carson examines the tides of pluralism washing over virtually every aspect of American culture. Carson asserts the uniqueness of Jesus in a world of competing pluralistic claims, and despite the attempt to "gag God", He is still there and He is not silent. [via]
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A Generous Orthodoxyby Brian D. McLarenISBN 0310258030 (0-310-25803-0)
Softcover, Youth Specialties
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Generous Orthodoxy'Book summary:cover wear only [via]
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A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calviniby Brian D. McLarenISBN 0310257476 (0-310-25747-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvini'Book summary:A confession and manifesto from a senior leader in the emerging church movement---A Generous Orthodoxy calls for a radical, Christ-centered orthodoxy of faith and practice in a missional, generous spirit. Brian McLaren argues for a post-liberal, post-conservative, post-protestant convergence, which will stimulate lively interest and global conversation among thoughtful Christians from all traditions. In a sweeping exploration of belief, author Brian McLaren takes us across the landscape of faith, envisioning an orthodoxy that aims for Jesus, is driven by love, and is defined by missional intent. A Generous Orthodoxy rediscovers the mysterious and compelling ways that Jesus can be embraced across the entire Christian horizon. Rather than establishing what is and is not 'orthodox,' McLaren walks through the many traditions of faith, bringing to the center a way of life that draws us closer to Christ and to each other. Whether you find yourself inside, outside, or somewhere on the fringe of Christianity, A Generous Orthodoxy draws you toward a way of living that looks beyond the 'us/them' paradigm to the blessed and ancient paradox of 'we.' [via]
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0140188592 (0-14-018859-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
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- Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0140283382 (0-14-028338-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0143039946 (0-14-303994-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0140106618 (0-14-010661-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0553246844 (0-553-24684-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0224009605 (0-224-00960-5)
Hardcover, Cape - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0670348325 (0-670-34832-5)
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The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394417755 (0-394-41775-5)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The History of Sexuality: An Introductionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679724699 (0-679-72469-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Sexuality: An Introduction'Book summary:The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. [via]
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House of Leavesby Mark Z. DanielewskiISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Leaves'Book summary:Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.
Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - House of Leaves : A Novel: ISBN 0375410341 (0-375-41034-1)
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Identity, Culture and the Postmodern Worldby Madan Sarup, Tasneem RajaISBN 0820318671 (0-8203-1867-1)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World'Book summary:This introductory guide surveys the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug and explains their analyses of current topics such as consumer identity and commodity aesthetics; post-colonial criticism; identity and narrative; and the general condition of postmodernity. [via]
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If on a Winter's Night a Travelerby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156439611 (0-15-643961-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler'Book summary:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.
The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches--stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition--with explorations of how and why we read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space." [via]
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If on a Winter's Night a Travelerby William Weaver, Italo CalvinoISBN 0679420258 (0-679-42025-8)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler'Book summary:If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.
The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches--stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition--with explorations of how and why we read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space." [via]
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Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Scienceby J. Bricmont, Alan D. SokalISBN 1861976313 (1-86197-631-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Science'Book summary:When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain, it provoked vicious debate. Sokal and Bricmont examine the canon of French postmodernists - Lacan, Kristeva, Baudrillard, Irigaray, Latour, Virilio, Deleuze and Guattari - and systematically expose their abuse of science. [via]
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Introducing Postmodernismby Richard Appignanesi, Patrick Curry, Ziauddin Sardar, Chris GarrattISBN 1840460563 (1-84046-056-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Postmodernism'Book summary:What on earth is postmodernism? This is a guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept which is supposed to define the human cultural condition at the end of the 20th century. Postmodernism claims that "modernity" has collapsed, that the historical process which began with the enlightenment, industrialism, Darwin, Marx, Freud and so on has exhausted itself and there is no more "future", just an endlessly "contemporary" world full of endlessly contested meanings. This uncertainty has led to a postmodern culture which embodies parody, pastiche and cultural cross-over and claims as its own such diverse phenomena as Andy Warhol, neo-classical architecture and Mickey Mouse! This book takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through structuralism, deconstruction, cyberspace and semiotics in the company of the essential postmodern icons from Adorno and Lacan to Foucault and Umberto Eco. [via]
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An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernismby Madan SarupISBN 0820315311 (0-8203-1531-1)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism'Book summary:Madan Sarup has now revised his accessible and popular introduction to post-structuralist and postmodern theory. A new introductory section discusses the meaning of such concepts as modernity, postmodernity, modernization, modernism, and postmodernism. A section on feminist criticism of Lacan and Foucault has been added, together with a new chapter on French feminist theory focusing on the work of Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva.[via]The chapter on postmodernism has been significantly expanded to include a discussion of Lyotard's language games and his use of the category "sublime." This chapter ends with a discussion of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism. A further chapter has been added on the work of Jean Baudrillard, a cult figure on the current postmodernist scene, whose ideas have attained a wide currency. The chapter includes a new section on postmodern cultural practices as revealed in architecture, TV, video, and film. Suggestions for further reading are now listed at the end of each chapter and are upgraded and annotated.
In tracing the impact of post-structuralist thought not only on literary criticism but on such disciplines as philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, the social sciences, and art, this book will be essential reading for those who want a clear and incisive introduction to the theories that continue to have widespread influence.
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Lost in the Funhouseby John BarthISBN 0385240872 (0-385-24087-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in the Funhouse'Book summary:Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection. [via]
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Lost in the Funhouse; Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice.by John BarthISBN 038504187X (0-385-04187-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in the Funhouse; Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice.'Book summary:Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection. [via]
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Mason & Dixonby Thomas PynchonISBN 0312423209 (0-312-42320-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mason & Dixon'Book summary:A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they travel the world mapping and measuring through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and bawdy establishments of ill-repute. Fans of the postmodern master of paranoia will recognize Pynchon's personality in the novel's first phrase: "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs," a brief echo of the rockets that curve across the skies in the writer's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow. [via]
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Mason and Dixonby Thomas PynchonISBN 0805058370 (0-8050-5837-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mason and Dixon'Book summary:A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they travel the world mapping and measuring through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and bawdy establishments of ill-repute. Fans of the postmodern master of paranoia will recognize Pynchon's personality in the novel's first phrase: "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs," a brief echo of the rockets that curve across the skies in the writer's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow. [via]
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A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journeyby Brian D. McLarenISBN 078795599X (0-7879-5599-X)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey'Book summary:A Leadership Network Publication
A New Kind of Christian's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where personal, daily interaction with God is more important than institutional church structures, where faith is more about a way of life than a system of belief, where being authentically good is more important than being doctrinally "right," and where one's direction is more important than one's present location. Brian McLaren's delightful account offers a wise and wondrous approach for revitalizing Christian spiritual life and Christian congregations.
If you are interested in joining a discussion group devoted to a A New Kind of Christian please visit groups.yahoo.com/group/NKOC. [via]
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledgeby Jean-Francois LyotardISBN 0816611734 (0-8166-1173-4)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Cultureby Gene Edward VeithISBN 0891077685 (0-89107-768-5)
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Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismby Fredric JamesonISBN 0822310902 (0-8223-1090-2)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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A Primer on Postmodernismby Stanley J. GrenzISBN 0802808646 (0-8028-0864-6)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Primer on Postmodernism'Book summary:Grenz examines the topography of postmodernism, a phenomenon everyone acknowledges, but has difficulty describing with precision. Of particular significance is his discussion of the challenges this cultural shift presents to the church. [via]
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Reclaiming The Center: Confronting Evangelical Accommodation In Postmodern Timesby Millard J. Erickson, Justin Taylor, Paul Kjoss HelsethISBN 1581345682 (1-58134-568-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reclaiming The Center: Confronting Evangelical Accommodation In Postmodern Times'Book summary:"When evangelicals confuse an improper passion for novelty with a proper pursuit of academic and pastoral relevance, the results can be distressing. I cannot express how grateful I am for the well-formed wisdom with which this book points to the abiding and decisive relevance for future route-finding of the old theological paths."
-J. I. Packer, Professor, Regent College"For those evangelicals who-like myself-are increasingly troubled by extravagant claims made by various evangelical scholars about the nature of the 'postmodern' challenge, as well as by earnest calls to develop new epistemological and theological perspectives in response to this challenge, the writers of these essays shed much light. This book is must-reading for everyone who wants to promote a clear-thinking evangelicalism for our contemporary context."
-Richard J. Mouw, President and Professor of Christian Philosophy, Fuller Seminary"Here is a collection of intelligent, provocative, gutsy essays that dare to fly into the eye of the scholarly storm over evangelical identity. Though different perspectives are present even here, the underlying thesis is clear and worth heeding: the eager, and sometimes uncritical, embrace of postmodernist paradigms may be as premature as it has proven to be unproductive for the well-being of the evangelical church. One of the most important books of the new century!"
-Timothy George, Dean, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University"Provocative, timely, and controversial!"
-Donald G. Bloesch, Professor of Theology Emeritus, Dubuque Theological Seminary"Compromise and confusion stand at the center of evangelicalism's theological crisis, and a clear-headed and convictional analysis of the problem has been desperately needed. Thankfully, Reclaiming the Center has arrived just in time. . . . My fervent hope is that it will open evangelical eyes, humble evangelical hearts, and awaken this generation to the peril of accommodationism."
-R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary"The authors of this well-designed volume provide a bold and well-argued response to what is sometimes called 'postconservative evangelicalism.' This important conversation regarding the essence, center, and boundaries of evangelicalism is here explored, interpreted, and assessed from a well-informed theological, philosophical, and historical perspective. . . . I heartily commend this volume and trust it will find a large readership."
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Simulacra and Simulationby Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Faria GlaserISBN 0472065211 (0-472-06521-1)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmodernsby D. A. CarsonISBN 0310243343 (0-310-24334-3)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns'Book summary:This thoughtful cultural analysis probes important turning-points of biblical theology, describes successful contemporary evangelism, and exposes readers to the strategy and practice of Christian thinkers who are reaching the postmodern world. [via]
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophreniaby Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Brian MassumiISBN 0816614024 (0-8166-1402-4)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia'Book summary:A Thousand Plateaus is the second part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. Written over a seven year period, A Thousand Plateaus provides a compelling analysis of social phenomena and offers fresh alternatives for thinking about philosophy and culture. Its radical perspective provides a toolbox for 'nomadic thought' and has had a galvanizing influence on today's anti-capitalist movement. [via]
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Truth And the New Kind of Christian: The Emerging Effect of Postmodernism in the Churchby R. Scott SmithISBN 1581347405 (1-58134-740-5)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernismby Douglas R. GroothuisISBN 0830822283 (0-8308-2228-3)
Softcover, Intervarsity Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism'Book summary:A 2001 Award of Merit winner! The concept of truth as absolute, objective and universal has undergone serious deterioration in recent years. No longer is it a goal for all to pursue. Rather postmodernism sees truth as inseparable from culture, psychology, race and gender. Ultimately, truth is what we make it to be. What factors have accelarated this decay of truth? Why are people willing to embrace such a devalued concept? How does this new view compare and contrast with a Christian understanding? While postmodernism contains some truthful insights (despite its attempt to dethrone truth), Douglas Groothuis sees its basic tenets as intellectually flawed and hostile to Christian views. In this spirited presentation of a solid, biblical and logical perspective, Groothuis unveils how truth has come under attack and how it can be defended in the vital areas of theology, apologetics, ethics and the arts. [via]
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Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Ageby Brian J. Walsh, J. Richard MiddletonISBN 0830818561 (0-8308-1856-1)
Softcover, Intervarsity Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age'Book summary:Voted one of 1996 Books of the Year! So Richard Middleton and Brian Walsh colorfully describe our postmodern setting. In this book they survey postmodern culture and philosophy, offering lucid explanations of such difficult theories as deconstruction. They are sympathetic to the postmodern critique, yet believe that a gospel stripped of its modernist trappings speaks a radical word of hope and transformation to our chaotic culture. The book for those who wonder what postmodernism is and how biblical Christians might best respond. [via]
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Underworldby Don DelilloISBN 1416548645 (1-4165-4864-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Underworld'Book summary:While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the cold war and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls "super-omniscience" the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union's second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It's an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca's pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotter--the "shot heard around the world"--and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra's shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand.
"It's all falling indelibly into the past," writes DeLillo, a past that he carefully recalls and reconstructs with acute grace. Jump from Giants Stadium to the Nevada desert in 1992, where Nick Shay, who now owns the baseball, reunites with the artist Kara Sax. They had been brief and unlikely lovers 40 years before, and it is largely through the events, spinoffs, and coincidental encounters of their pasts that DeLillo filters the Cold War experience. He believes that "global events may alter how we live in the smallest ways," and as the book steps back in time to 1951, over the following 800-odd pages, we see just how those events alter lives. This reverse narrative allows the author to strip away the detritus of history and pop culture until we get to the story's pure elements: the bomb, the baseball, and the Bronx. In an epilogue as breathless and stunning as the prologue, DeLillo fast-forwards to a near future in which ruthless capitalism, the Internet, and a new, hushed faith have replaced the Cold War's blend of dread and euphoria.
Through fragments and interlaced stories--including those of highway killers, artists, celebrities, conspiracists, gangsters, nuns, and sundry others--DeLillo creates a fragile web of connected experience, a communal Zeitgeist that encompasses the messy whole of five decades of American life, wonderfully distilled. [via]
Vby Thomas PynchonISBN 848310024X (84-8310-024-X)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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White Noiseby Don DelilloISBN 0140077022 (0-14-007702-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Noise'Book summary:Winner of the National Book Award in 1985, White Noise is the story of Jack and Babette and their children from their six or so various marriages. They live in a college town where Jack is Professor of Hitler Studies (and conceals the fact that he does not speak a word of German), and Babette teaches posture and volunteers by reading from the tabloids to a group of elderly shut-ins. They are happy enough until a deadly toxic accident and Babette's addiction to an experimental drug make Jake question everything. White Noise is considered a postmodern classic and its unfolding of themes of consumerism, family and divorce, and technology as a deadly threat have attracted the attention of literary scholars since its publication. This Viking Critical Library edition, prepared by scholar Mark Osteen, is the only edition of White Noise that contains the entire text along with an extensive critical apparatus, including a critical introduction, selected essays on the author, the work and its themes, reviews, a chronology of DeLillo's life and work, a list of discussion topics, and a selected bibliography.[via]More editions of White Noise:
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Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, And Foucault to Churchby James K. A. SmithISBN 080102918X (0-8010-2918-X)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, And Foucault to Church'Book summary:The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have a deep affinity with central Christian claims.
Each chapter opens with an illustration from a recent movie and concludes with a case study considering recent developments in the church that have attempted to respond to the postmodern condition, such as the "emerging church" movement. These case studies provide a concrete picture of how postmodern ideas can influence the way Christians think and worship.
This significant book, winner of a Christianity Today 2007 Book Award, avoids philosophical jargon and offers fuller explanation where needed. It is the first book in the Church and Postmodern Culture series, which provides practical applications for Christians engaged in ministry in a postmodern world. [via]More editions of Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, And Foucault to Church:
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La Condition Postmoderne: Rapport Sur Le Savoirby Jean-Francois LyotardISBN 2707302767 (2-7073-0276-7)
Hardcover, Editions De Minuit
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Condition Postmoderne: Rapport Sur Le Savoir'Book summary:La crise de l'université, l'apparition d'une nouvelle classe sociale - les cadres - l'incidence des transformations technologiques sur le savoir scientifique, la traduction de la connaissance en quantité d'information, tout cela concourre à se poser la question du statut du savoir dans les sociétés post-industrielles, autrement dit à se demander si l'informatisation ne nous conduit pas à reconsidérer certains aspects de la transformation du savoir ainsi que ses conséquences politiques, sur la société et l'État. Examinant la représentation de la société contemporaine telle qu'elle apparaît aux technocrates ou aux marxistes, l'auteur pose la question du savoir par rapport au pouvoir :" Qui décide ce qu'est savoir et qui sait ce qu'il convient de décider. " À l'âge de l'informatique, la question du savoir est plus que jamais celle du gouvernement et elle ne peut se réduire à l'alternative d'un savoir, soit " technologique ", soit " critique ". La remise en question du savoir est un problème de société qui ne peut se limiter au seul savoir scientifique, à la connaissance, ou à la valeur d'un énoncé. Pour s'interroger sur le savoir scientifique, il faut le confronter au savoir narratif dont le récit est la forme par excellence, et qui a toujours existé dans les sociétés précédentes. Mais, le savoir postmoderne n'est pas seulement l'instrument des pouvoirs : il raffine notre sensibilité aux différences et renforce notre capacité de supporter l'incommensurable. Lui-même ne trouve pas sa raison dans l'homologie des experts, mais dans la paralogie des inventeurs. [via]
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Impostures Intellectuellesby J. Bricmont, Alan D. SokalISBN 2738105033 (2-7381-0503-3)
Hardcover, O. Jacob
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Mille Plateauxby Felix Guattari, Gilles DeleuzeISBN 2707303070 (2-7073-0307-0)
Hardcover, Editions De Minuit
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mille Plateaux'Book summary:L'espace lisse, ou Nomos : sa différence avec l'espace strié. - Ce qui remplit l'espace lisse : le corps, sa différence avec l'organisme. - Ce qui se distribue dans cet espace : rhizome, meutes et multiplicités. - Ce qui se passe : les devenirs et les intensités. - Les coordonnées tracées : territoires, terre et déterritorialisations, Cosmos. - Les signes correspondants, le langage et la musique (les ritournelles). - Agencement des espaces-temps : machine de guerre et appareil d'État. Chaque thème est censé constituer un "plateau", c'est-à-dire une région continue d'intensités. Le raccordement des régions se fait à la fois de proche en proche et à distance, suivant des lignes de rhizome, qui concernent les éléments de l'art, de la science et de la politique. [via]
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La Condicion Postmoderna/ Postmodern Conditionby Jean-Francois LyotardISBN 8437604664 (84-376-0466-4)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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El Posmodernismo o la logica cultural del capitalismo avanzado/ Postmodernism or the cultural logic Late Capitalismby Fredric JamesonISBN 8475097057 (84-7509-705-7)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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Se Una Notte D'Inverno UN Viaggiatoreby Italo CalvinoISBN 8804482001 (88-04-48200-1)
Softcover, Mondadori
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