The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism (2nd edition)

This is a revised edition of a book published originally as The Icon Dictionary of Postmodern Thought (1998) and reviewed by Stuart Hannabuss in these columns (RR 1998/305). The term “postmodern” is fashionable, widely used and influential. The difficulty is to find a definition. In his Preface, Stuart Sim refers to some theorists who have suggested that “it is as much a mood or attitude of mind as anything else” but in his search for the meaning of the term Sim indicates that it can be regarded “as a rejection of many, if not most, of the cultural certainties on...