Local Transcendence (Hardcover, New)

Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today's society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most local present--the most recent financial quarter, the latest artistic movement, the instant message or blog post at the top of the screen. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history.
In the essays collected in "Local Transcendence," Alan Liu takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism--including the new historicism, the new cultural history, cultural anthropology, the new pragmatism, and postmodern and postindustrial theory--and digital information technology. What is the relation between the new historicist anecdote and the database field, Liu asks, and can either have a critical function in the age of postmodern historicism? "Local Transcendence" includes two previously unpublished essays and a synthetic introduction in which Liu traverses from his earlier work on the theory of historicism to his recent studies of information culture to propose a theory of contingent method incorporating a special inflection of history: media history.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	October 2008
Authors:	Alan Liu
Dimensions:	235 x 163 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	408
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-48695-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-226-48695-8
Barcode:	9780226486956

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!