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Jim Powell

    Jim Powell est un romancier britannique qui perpétue la tradition de son ancêtre, le romancier du XIXe siècle Thomas Love Peacock. Son œuvre se caractérise par de profondes perspectives sur la nature humaine et les relations sociales, explorant souvent la complexité de la communication interpersonnelle et la recherche de sens dans le monde moderne. Le style de Powell est remarquable par sa précision et son élégance, qui attirent les lecteurs dans les mondes richement dépeints de ses histoires. Cette approche lui a valu la reconnaissance en tant que voix importante de la littérature britannique contemporaine.

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    Derrida for Beginners
    Postmodernism for Beginners
    • 2007

      Postmodernism for Beginners

      • 192pages
      • 7 heures de lecture
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      If you are like most people, you're not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn't tell you. Jim Powell takes the position that Postmodernism is a series of `maps' that help people find their way through a changing world. Postmodernism For Beginners features the thoughts of Foucault on power and knowledge, Jameson on mapping the postmodern, Baudrillard on the media, Harvey on time-space compression, Derrida on deconstruction and Deleuze and Guattari on rhizomes.

      Postmodernism for Beginners
    • 1997

      Since 1968, in coffeehouses around the world, intellectuals have been talking about Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction. Jim Powell has written the most lucid introduction available on this important philosopher, whose abstruse mode of philosophizing remains incomprehensible to even the best-educated minds. Speaking tours.

      Derrida for Beginners
    • 1989