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Article: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?(BOOKS IN BRIEF)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- June 22, 2006
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Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?
James K.A. Smith
Baker Academic, 2006. 156 pp.
Is the Devil from Paris? This is James K.A. Smith's opening question in his new book, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? Smith sets out to challenge the common perception that postmodernism, an intellectual movement credited to twentieth-century French philosophers, is a force working against the institutions of Christianity and the Church. He parses the mantras of Derrida, Lyotard and Foucault, the fathers of postmodernism, and finds that their insights are not so much vituperative threats as constructive comments affording important points for theologians ...
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