Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Strands of Continuity in Collage Compositions by Rochberg, Berio, and ZimmermannThis article discusses a group of pieces that can best be understood as musical collages: the third movement of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia (1968), the first movement of George Rochberg...
Postmodernism HistoryAmerican pragmatism can be best understood against the background of 20th-century American culture and politics. The essays in this volume... DJ Depew,R Hollinger - 《Ui Faculty Page》 被引量: 33发表: 1995年 Deepening Methods in Business Ethics business ethicspragmatismpostmoder...
Postmodernism is best understood not as a rigid concept or a coherent ideological stance but as a bundle of shared impulses and tendencies amounting to a kind of common spirit. More than anything else postmodernism is an attitude, and that attitude is definitively ironic. It revels in comedy ...
Standing out among the array of cultural programs, the opera and theater typology is often understood as encompassing the luxurious and elitist spirit of a bourgeois society focused on entertainment. Across the Soviet Union, this represented the opposite of the principles to be promoted. However, de...
In fact, I cannot, no more than I can define romanticism or modernism in a sentence or paragraph. Such definitions are best left to some onomastic genius. Once, I offered a table of features contrasting modernism with postmodernism. Once is quite enough. I: Why is that? H: Because it ...
(following Lacan) will determine new types of syntax or syntagmatic relationships in the more temporal arts; a whole new type of emotional ground tone—what I will call “intensities”— which can best be grasped by a return to older theories of the sublime; the deep constitutive relationships...
All we can do is to search for the falsity content of our best theory. We do so by trying to refute our theory; that is, by trying to test it severely in the light of all our objective knowledge and all our ingenuity. It is, of course, always possible that the theory may be ...
Trilling claims that sincerity can contain irony in its construction, and I think that this is applicable to the connected term authenticity, which is best understood as the goal of the affective process of acting sincerely. Trilling posits that “the word [sincerity] itself has lost most of ...
In this respect, the parable of the panopticon can be read today as a warning, perhaps even more chilling than that of Orwell’s totalitarian nightmare, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Foucault reminds us that oppression doesn’t have to be brutal and obvious. It can be silent, unseen and ultimately ...
are structural differences. It is impossible for either party to be fully understandable to the other if not understood in its own terms. If these interlocutors are correct, then how can we “get the right picture?” Are we overstating the case when we avow that postmodernism and ...