Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and index.
Contents
"There are no absolutes" -- Part 1. Postmodern thought -- From the modern to the postmodern -- Constructing and deconstructing truth -- The critique of the human -- Part 2. Postmodern art -- Playing with conventions : art and performance -- Towers of Babel : the example of architecture -- Metafictions : TV, movies, and literature -- Part 3. Postmodern society -- The new tribalism -- The politics of power -- Everyday postmodernism -- Part 4. Postmodern religion -- Spirituality without truth -- Postmodern Christianity -- Conclusion : "when the foundations are destroyed."