Ethics and Desire in the Wake of Postmodernism(English, Hardcover, Matthews Graham)

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Ethics and Desire in the Wake of Postmodernism(English, Hardcover, Matthews Graham) is written by Matthews Graham and published by Continuum Publishing Corporation. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1441140077 (ISBN 10) and 9781441140074 (ISBN 13).

"What is the significance of writing in the wake of postmodernism? The previous decade has seen a growing interest in criticism of postmodern ethics and aesthetics from theorists and writers. This book begins to answer what art form or critical methodology might take its place. Exploring the work of six contemporary novelists Bret Easton Ellis, J.G. Ballard, Will Self, Michel Houellebecq, Tama Janowitz and Chuck Palahniuk Ethics and Desire in the Wake of Postmodernism delivers a series of interventions into six key areas of contemporary debate: fear, nihilism, revolution, ethics, enjoyment and feminism. The book goes on to develop an innovative critical methodology which reinvigorates the ability of art and literature to engage in ideological critique. Rather than valorising separatism, plurality or indeterminacy, this approach delivers a critical framework which enacts a radical de-centering of the fundamental coordinates of contemporary society. "