Transcending Postmodernism

Auteur

Raoul Eshelman is a Slavist who received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Constance and who worked primarily at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich until his retirement in 2022.

Texte du rabat

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism. Its main thesis is that, beginning in the mid-1990s, the strategies and norms of postmodernism have been displaced by ones that force readers or viewers to experience effects of aesthetically mediated transcendence.

Résumé
Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism. Its main thesis is that, beginning in the mid-1990s, the strategies and norms of postmodernism have been displaced by ones that force readers or viewers to experience effects of aesthetically mediated transcendence.

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Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Theories of Post-Postmodernism

Chapter One: The Prison-House of Posthistoricism

Chapter Two: A Time for Transcendence

Chapter Three: Performatism and the Ethics of Perpetration

Chapter Four: From Fool to Genius: Separated Subjectivity in Performatism

Chapter Five: Aesthetics, Sexuality and Transcendence

Chapter Six: Performatism and Global Narratives

Chapter Seven: The End of Performatism?

Bibliography

Index