What is Postmodernity / Postmodernism? E-Book

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2007

Beschreibung

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Brandeis University, language: English, abstract: Introduction to the concept of Postmodernity / Postmodernism David Harvey asks how economic shifts can bring about cultural transformations like postmodernism. He believes in material basis of culture, and tries to explain Postmodernity as a historical-geographical condition; Marxism provides the meta-narrative behind postmodernism; it’s not so different that Marxism cannot cope with it. For Harvey, shift in experience of time and space lies at heart of Postmodernity. Effect of a crisis of Fordist economy. It is link between economy (flexible accumulation) and culture (postmodernism). This paper is the attempt to give an introduction to the concept of Postmodernity and Postmodernism.