| Postmodern Pluralism and Concepts of Totality: The Twenty-Fourth Wisconsin Workshop Contributor(s): Hermand, Jost (Editor) |
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ISBN: 082042658X ISBN-13: 9780820426587 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $56.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Germany - Literary Criticism | European - German - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 320.53 |
| LCCN: 94027373 |
| Series: Studies in Church History, |
| Physical Information: 163 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The present volume contains contributions to the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Workshop on -Postmodern Pluralism and Concepts of Totality-. For more than fifty years these two terms have been in the center of a world-wide controversy, be it in political speeches, mass media declarations, newspaper articles, or works of literature. Instead of conforming to conventional patterns of an unquestioned -democratic pluralism, - the speakers at this conference tried to rescue certain concepts of totality from meaningless notions of an -open society- which has given up all hopes for a political, social and cultural communality, based on concepts of the common good. And they did this not only in regard to political and socio-economic theories, but also in view of discourses such as feminism, ecology, utopian thinking, philosophy, German studies, and materialist theories of literature." |