
Postmodern Times
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The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, have blown up. The postmodern age has begun.
Just what is postmodernism? The average person would be shocked by its creed: Truth, meaning, and individual identity do not exist. These are social constructs. Human life has no special significance, no more value than animal or plant life. All social relationships, all institutions, all moral values are expressions and masks of the primal will to power.
Alarmingly, these ideas have gripped the nation's universities, which turn out today's lawyers, judges, writers, journalists, teachers, and other culture-shapers. Through society's influences, postmodernist ideas have seeped into films, television, art, literature, politics; and, without his knowing it, into the head of the average person on the street.
Christ has called us to proclaim the gospel to a culture grappling with postmodernism. We must understand our times. Then, through the power that Christ gives, we can counter the prevailing culture and proclaim His sufficiency to our society's very points of need.
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Gene Edward Veith (PhD, University of Kansas) is provost and professor of literature emeritus at Patrick Henry College. He previously worked as the culture editor of World magazine. Veith and his wife, Jackquelyn, have three grown children and seven grandchildren.
Content
- Intro
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Content
- Preface
- 1 "There Are No Absolutes"
- PART ONE: POSTMODERN THOUGHT
- 2 From the Modern to the Postmodern
- 3 Constructing and Deconstructing Truth
- 4 The Critique of the Human
- PART TWO: POSTMODERN ART
- 5 Playing with Conventions: Art and Performance
- 6 Towers of Babel: The Example of Architecture
- 7 Metafictions: TV, Movies, and Literature
- PART THREE: POSTMODERN SOCIETY
- 8 The New Tribalism
- 9 The Politics of Power
- 10 Everyday Postmodernism
- PART FOUR: POSTMODERN RELIGION
- 11 Spirituality Without Truth
- 12 Postmodern Christianity
- 13 Conclusion: "When the Foundations Are Destroyed"
- Notes
- Scripture Index
- Index
- Back Cover
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