The packet first defines what the postmodern era is and explains how these claims prove this is the era we are living in today. His first claim is that the ideas of progress, rationality, and scientific objectivity in the past are no longer accepted because they don’t take cultural differences into account. There are less ...
Sire explained the basics of worldviews in concise, easy to understand language. This fourth edition, published in 2004 by InterVarsity Press, refines the definition of worldview itself, incorporating Sire’s thinking and teaching over the past three decades. It demonstrates his continued growth and the increasing demand for this vital information. The Universe Next Door has ...
Through his works The Cultural Turn, A singular Modernity, and “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” Fredric Jameson provides a standpoint from which postmodernism can be viewed and understood. Jameson defines postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism, or the cultural counterpart of what he calls present-day multinational capitalism, referring to postmodernism ...
Raymond Carver is one of the all-time greatest postmodernist short story writers in America. His story “Cathedral” is just one fantastic example of his genius. In “Cathedral,” Carver skillfully utilizes the postmodern elements of fractured narrative, nihilism, and the anti hero to tell the story of one eye-opening evening in his main character’s life. Postmodern ...
1.)The beauty ideal of popular culture can be best understood using a cultural studies approach. By using a cultural studies approach, we are better suited to understand why the beauty ideal is different for both men and women. Feminism would allow mainly a one-sided view of the beauty ideal. It would be that of the ...