Zeitgeist in Babel: The Postmodernist Controversy

Untendentious and highly informative . . . --Virginia Quarterly Review

. . . extremely useful and intellectually stimulating . . . --Seminar

Zeitgeist in Babel vividly displays the confluence of discourse-formations concerning postmodernism as they take shape in the different disciplines of aesthetic mediums and philosophical discourse. The twenty contributors include Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Clement Greenberg, Martin Jay, Charles Jencks, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and Richard Rorty.

Other contributors are Charles Boone, Matei Calinescu, C. Barry Chabot, Erika Fischer-Lichte, David Hayman, Jost Hermand, Ingeborg Hoesterey, Peter Koslowski, Rosalind E. Krauss, Donald B. Kuspit, Stefano Rosso, Maureen Turim, and Gianni Vattimo.

Author: Ingeborg Hoesterey
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 01/22/1991
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.05w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780253206114