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Judith Squires (ed)
Postmodernism
has often been celebrated as liberating, even democratising, in its refusal
to acknowledge the dictates of hierarchy and certainty. This has allowed outmoded
canons of taste and conservative categories of high and low culture to be
challenged and abolished; but it has also banished the vocabulary of evaluation,
distinction and merit. The contributors to Principled Positions ponder modernist
absolutes of truth, value and justice and the anti-totalising spirit of postmodernism.
'This is an important collection' Suzanne Moore
'It is a strong collection on an important theme, well edited, well written and well produced.'
NJ Rengger, Political Studies
Contributors: Steve Connor, David Harvey, Paul Hirst, Chantal Mouffe,
Christopher Norris, Kate Soper, Jeffrey Weeks and Iris Marion Young.