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“Postmodernism” is a word so frequently used and so little dearly understood that its very lack of stable reference could be said to justify the notion of a condition known as “postmodern”. In The Postmodern Condition of 1979, Jean-François Lyotard suggests this definition of the word:
[postmodernism] designates the state of our culture following the transformations which, since the end of the nineteenth century, have altered the game rules for science, literature, and the arts.1
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Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi (Manchester, 1984) p. xxiii.
See Arthur Kroker and David Cook, The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics, 2nd edn (London, 1991) p. vi.
See David E. Klemm, Hermeneutical Inquiry, vol. t: The Interpretation of Texts (Atlanta, 1986) pp. 22–3.
Stephen Sykes, The Identity of Christianity (London, 1984) p. 4.
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley (Harmondsworth, 1981) pp. 94–5.
Jacques Derrida, “Deconstruction and the Other”, in Richard Kearney (ed.), Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers: The Phenomenological Heritage (Manchester, 1984) p. 110: Sykes, Identity of Christianity, p. 149.
Charles E. Winquist, in the Foreword to Robert P. Scharlemann, Inscriptions and Reflections. Essays in Philosophical Theology (Charlottesville, 1989) p. viii.
See Stanley Fish, “Being Interdisciplinary is So Very Hard to Do”, Profession 89 Modern Language Association of America (1989) 15–22.
Sean Hand, Introduction to The Levinas Reader (Oxford, 1989) p. 1.
John Wild, Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, trans. Alphonsus Lingis (The Hague, Boston, London, 1969) p. 13.
See Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil, trans. Alastair Hamilton (London, New York, 1985); also Kroker and Cook, Postmodern Scene, pp. iff.
Julia Kristeva, “Word, Dialogue and Novel”, in Toril Moi (ed.), The Kristeva Reader (Oxford, 1986) p. 59.
Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, quoted in Jean Baudrillard, The Evil Demon of Images, trans. Paul Patton and Paul Foss (Sydney, 1987) pp. 13–14.
See Richard Harland, Superstructuralism: The Philosophy of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism (London, 1987) pp. 181–2.
See D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse (1931; Harmondsworth, 1974). I am much indebted here to conversations with Christopher Burdon of Glasgow University.
Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending (Oxford, 1968) pp. 112–14.
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Jasper, D. (1995). Violence and Postmodernism: Is There No Hope in the Evil Demon of Images?. In: Readings in the Canon of Scripture. Studies in Literature and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376083_7
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