Life and Multiple Times in Postmodernity

Life and Times of Post-Modernity

Life and Times in Postmodernity is a masterful reflection by sociologist Keith Tester on postmodernity and postmodernist research. He focuses on the conditions that underlie the stakes and conditions of postmodernity. Drawing primarily on "world writing," he examines myths and myths about our world, exploring the stories people rely on to negotiate compromises, justify practical actions, and make setbacks acceptable.
Perhaps postmodernity can be seen as the culmination of human history, not only that, but also as the ultimate realization of all the hopes and ambitions that have been expressed desperately and hopefully since the birth of philosophy. As long as we ignore the shabby remnants of pre-historical and historical peoples and let them glimmer faintly outside the gilded arcades of postmodernity, it seems that at this moment, the world has finally been fully and clearly presented.
People no longer have needs, no longer feel discomfort, but at the same time that also means, no longer have hope.
To live a postmodern life is to live in disregard of the lessons of modernity, especially the lesson of Kafka: that hope presupposes the inevitable unattainability of what is hoped for. To live a postmodern life is to live with the truth that the only thing worse than failing to realize a hope is realizing it.

2020-05-01

上海文艺出版社

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235

9787532176472