Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age
Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age
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后现代时代的疾病与文化
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Iona Heath
大卫B莫里斯
加州大学出版社，17.50英镑，第360页
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ISBN 0 520 20869 2
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后现代世界观既令人恐惧，又令人解放。到本世纪开始时，对宗教的伟大解释，承诺死后永生的完美，已经让位于大乌托邦的政治愿景，承诺今生的完美社会。在整个世纪中期，这些愿景被无情地腐蚀成了可怕的反乌托邦，而现在，在我们的后现代世界中，由此产生的幻灭已经对人类困境的所有全面解释和解决方案产生了深刻的不信任。绝对真理的观念已经让位于对...
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David B Morris
University of California Press, £17.50, pp 360
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ISBN 0 520 20869 2
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The postmodern view of our world is simultaneously terrifying and liberating. By the start of this century, the great explanation of religion, promising perfection in an everlasting life after death, had given way to the big utopian political visions, which promised a perfect society in this life. Through the middle part of the century, these visions were inexorably corrupted into monstrous dystopias, and now, in our postmodern world, the resulting disillusion has fostered a deep distrust of all comprehensive explanations of, and solutions to, the human predicament. The notion of absolute truth has given way to an acceptance of …
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