The Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind

Can the postmodern decide things? Can it oppose abuses of fantasy and power, and resist the attractions of violence? Who stands to gain from postmodernity? Cristopher Nash sets out these questions and more, taking the view that the entire body of writing on postmodernity needs to be reread. Casting a wide net beginning with a radical reading of the felt human needs fulfilled by philosophical indeterminist and pluralist thinking, and tracking similar impulses through the media, literature, fashion, the arts and architecture, tourism, dance and rock, drug culture, the cultures of cyberspace, virtual reality and cyberorganics, and the proliferation of new modes of birth, lifestyle and death, it catches the sound of the postmodern phenomenon in its greater clamor.

Foreword; Chapter One; The Postmodern Tradition; Chapter Two; A Fantasy; Chapter Three; Ambivalence; Chapter Four; Ways of Speaking; Chapter Five; Ways of Acting; Chapter Six; Living through Postmodernity; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography.