03120nam 22006495 450 991035785160332120250609110824.09783030305697303030569410.1007/978-3-030-30569-7(CKB)4100000009836386(MiAaPQ)EBC5975920(DE-He213)978-3-030-30569-7(Perlego)3493771(MiAaPQ)EBC5975552(EXLCZ)99410000000983638620191108d2019 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAre We Postmodern Yet? And Were We Ever? /by Reinhold Kramer1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2019.1 online resource (333 pages)9783030305680 3030305686 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 1: Introduction: The Contemporary Era -- Chapter 2: Truth or Truths? -- Chapter 3 Ethics: "How I feel at the time" -- Chapter 4: Individualism: "I Believe in Me" -- Chapter 5: Adventures in Cyber-culture -- Chapter 6 :The Nation -- Chapter 7 :Faith and Other Grand Narratives -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.In this book, Reinhold Kramer explores a variety of important social changes, including the resistance to objective measures of truth, the rise of "How-I-Feel" ethics, the ascendancy of individualism, the immersion in cyber-simulations, the push toward globalization and multilateralism, and the decline of political and religious faiths. He argues that the displacement, since the 1990s, of grand narratives by ego-based narratives and small narratives has proven inadequate, and that selective adherence, pluralist adaptation, and humanism are more worthy replacements. Relying on evolutionary psychology as much as on Charles Taylor, Kramer argues that no single answer is possible to the book title's question, but that the term "postmodernity"-referring to the era, not to postmodernism- still usefully describes major currents within the contemporary world.PostmodernismLiterature, Modern20th centuryEthnologyCultureStudy and teachingPost-Modern PhilosophyTwentieth-Century LiteratureSociocultural AnthropologyCultural StudiesPostmodernism.Literature, ModernEthnology.CultureStudy and teaching.Post-Modern Philosophy.Twentieth-Century Literature.Sociocultural Anthropology.Cultural Studies.303.4303.372Kramer Reinholdauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut961524MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910357851603321Are We Postmodern Yet2179908UNINA