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Principled positions : postmodernism and the rediscovery of value

Title
Principled positions : postmodernism and the rediscovery of value / edited by Judith Squires.
Publication
London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1993.

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Squires, Judith.
Description
xii, 211 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  • Principled Positions is a new collection of essays taking us back to the question of value, which has often been derided by postmodern theorists. It aims to retain the insights of postmodern theory, but to recover modernism's sense of value.
  • Postmodernism has often been celebrated as liberating, even democratising, in its refusal to acknowledge the dictates of hierarchy and certainty. In cultural terms this has allowed outmoded canons of taste and conservative categories of high and low culture to be challenged and abolished; but it has also banished the vocabulary of evaluation, distinction and merit. In the postmodern cultural continuum, there is no such thing as good (or bad) art or politics.
  • The deconstruction of all 'principled positions' creates a value vacuum which, in turn, leads to a state of ethical and political paralysis. The contributors to Principled Positions ponder these dilemmas and try to build bridges between the modernist absolutes of truth, value and justice and the anti-totalising spirit of postmodernism.
Alternative Title
Postmodernism and the rediscovery of value
Subject
  • Postmodernism
  • Values
  • Ethics
  • ethics (philosophy)
  • Postmodernisme
  • Waarden
  • Valeurs sociales
  • Valeurs (philosophie)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Sect. 1. Beyond Relativism and Objectivism. Postmodernism, Subjectivity and the Question of Value / Kate Soper. The Necessity of Value / Steven Connor. An Answer to Relativism? / Paul Hirst -- Sect. 2. Pluralism and the Politics of Difference. Liberal Socialism and Pluralism: Which Citizenship? / Chantal Mouffe. Class Relations, Social Justice and the Politics of Difference / David Harvey. Together in Difference: Transforming the Logic of Group Political Conflict / Iris Marion Young. Old Themes for New Times: Postmodernism, Theory and Cultural Politics / Christopher Norris. Rediscovering Values / Jeffrey Weeks.
ISBN
  • 0853157804
  • 9780853157809
LCCN
  • 94161286
  • 33542205
OCLC
  • ocm29303803
  • 29303803
  • SCSB-9481737
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library