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Postmodern Semiotics: Material Culture and the Forms of Postmodern Life
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Blackwell Pub
Publication date January 1, 1995
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780631192152
ISBN-10 0631192158
Dimensions 1 by 6.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1.10 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $52.95
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book is a systematic treatment of semiotics from the perspective of postmodernism. It not only develops an important theory of the role of symbols in postmodern culture, but aims to help the reader to analyze contemporary society by providing a series of case studies that apply theory to everyday life. Chapters are devoted to applied studies of malls, Disneyland and theme parks, the role of signs and advertising in late capitalism, fashion, the body, rock subcultures, and the question of identity. The relationship between semiotics and postmodern culture discussed in this book rejects the influence of Saussure and is based, instead on Peirce. It makes a contribution to Peircian semiotics and at the same time provides a critique of deconstruction and the cultural analysis of Baudrillard. In their place it proposes a materialist semiotics which avoids the idealism and the privileging of mental states by postmodernism.

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from Blackwell Pub (January 1, 1995)
9780631192152 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $52.95
About: This book is a systematic treatment of semiotics from the perspective of postmodernism.
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from Blackwell Pub (December 1, 1994)
9780631192169 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $37.95
About: This book is the first systematic treatment of semiotics from the perspective of postmodernism.

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