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Study On The Postmodernism Cultural Logic

Posted on:2013-09-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330371487563Subject:Literature and art
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After World War Ⅱ, as the rapid development of technology and economy, the main western capitalist countries have got into the postindustrial late capitalism society successively by the1960s. Followed by this situation, some new sign which was differ from the cultural traits in the past period of Modernism has turned up in the field of social culture. Gradually, people began to use the concept "Postmodernism" to indicate the new cultural characteristics.Western humanistic theorists tend to divide the historical stage of Postmodernism in accordance with its main characteristics and start time. This kind of division was based on two ways: one marked off the "Postmodern Society" on the aspect of the productivity development of the whole society with the longitudinal historical perspective, such as Daniel Bell’s Postindustrial Society theory and Fredric Jameson’s Late Capitalism Society theory; another marked off the "Postmodernism Culture" on the aspect of culture characteristics embodied as different cultural phenomenon with the horizontal classified viewpoint, such as Ihab Hassan’s "Indetermanence" and Jean-Francois Lyotard’s "Narrative Crisis" theory.The innovation of media means and the arrival of mass media era have made the Postmodernism a world-wide cultural and ideological trend which was reflected significantly in the field of mass culture. Postmodernism reflects the complexity and diversification of contemporary society with its difficult indeterminacy. By means of the negative and revolt to the traditional culture system represented by Modernism and the self-destruction maverick spirit, the Postmodernism Culture hope to indicate the resistance toward late capitalism system and arouse the thinking and introspection about the new contemporary social problems.After struggling with late capitalism system, Postmodernism has come back to calm thinking. It traces out the blueprint of postmodern world on the introspection of modern society’s problems. It also expresses one equal and philanthropic ecological dimension, the pursuit of moral sense of worth and the worship of human creativity in the internal associated world on basis of the design and anticipation of ecological science, steadystate economy and community development.
Keywords/Search Tags:postmodernism, historical partition, cultural logic, mass culture, dimension construction
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