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Simply put: this book is an award winner from the two guys who have published the classic survey text Postmodern Theory, and who then followed up with the book that pretty much inaugurated the field of Critical Postmodernism in America, The Postmodern Turn, in which they mapped the emerging intersections of critical theory, art and aesthetics, philosophy, cultural studies, and the quantum changes in the sciences. That book won the Michael Harrington Award for the Best Book of 1998, New Political Science Section. I can honestly say that The Postmodern Adventure is twice the book that the last in the series was (and that book was clearly no slouch!). Best & Kellner clearly (but… Read more
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I write this review in direct opposition to the Publishers Weekly critique. ... Simply, Grand Theft 2000 is a political polemic from the Left that skewers #43, #41 and the entirety of their military-minded, big-business administrative cronies: Bush is flatly called an undeserving baby and images are presented of him sitting on daddy's knee as Son of Bush, both Bushes are the heirs of Nazi money, Cheney is a devious Machiavellian, Rumsfeld is a crazed racist who resembles Dr. Strangelove -- zig heil! Perhaps you have to be involved with high culture to understand what is truly interesting about this book: it is a set of theses nailed directly to the President's door...from a Philosophy… Read more
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