Practicing Postmodernism/Reading Modernism

by Patricia Waugh

Instead of accepting postmodernism on its own terms as a radical break with previous Western modes of knowledge and representation, it is more fruitful, Patricia Waugh argues, to view it as a late phase in a tradition of aestheticist thought inaugurated by philosophers such as Kant and
embodied in Romantic and modernist art.

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 1992