Description: An erudite and wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and romanticism in twentieth-century art and philosophy.
Brief description: Jos de Mul is Full Professor in Philosophy of Man and Culture at Erasmus University, The Netherlands.
Review Quotes:
"Jos de Mul does a beautiful job of summarizing in compressed form some of the most vexed texts and ideas in contemporary theory; as a writer, he is a fine teacher. He is also an effective critic of the arts, especially painting and music. I learned and re-learned a great deal in reading this book. If a student were to ask 'What book can I read that not only explains what these people whose names I hear all the time actually say, but also demonstrates the significance of their ideas in practice?' I would be tempted to refer him or her to this book." -- Jean-Pierre Mileur, University of California, Riverside
"A fine, efficient introduction to a wealth of texts and demanding theoretical issues that few critics seem to know as well as de Mul." -- Thomas Pfau, author of Idealism and the Endgame of Theory: Three Essays by F. W. J. Schelling