Most people don’t pay attention to the great sweeps of history. And when we do, we think of wars, famines and all the things that make life livable, and more often unlivable. We’re all vaguely aware ...

Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in prominent scholarly journals with titles like “Thinking the Unthinkable in ...

Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory—an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction ...

"First published as a Very Short Introduction 2002"--Title page verso. "Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short ...