Providing an overview of the historical and epistemological contexts within which Postmodernism has developed, this book aims to establish its relevance to contemporary culture. Wakefield maps out the key positions within the debate, offering a critical review of the principle protagonists: Barthes, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Foucault, Huyssen, Jameson and Lacan. He takes the contemporary debate back to linguistics, media studies, literary analysis, deconstruction and psychoanalysis. He looks at it through specific modern cultural phenomena such as Disneyworld, "The Sunday Sport" and Acid House. Neville Wakefield's thesis on cultural history which he wrote at the Royal College of Art was awarded the Penguin Book Prize for the best thesis of 1988.
- ISBN10 0745303412
- ISBN13 9780745303413
- Publish Date 30 May 1990
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 15 January 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pluto Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English