ness is that it allows one to skirt the question of critical reflec­ tion. Since affect is typically presented in somatic and noncognitive terms, it often serves as a safe solution within a critical climate that has become suspicious not only of the perceived impersonality of abstract­ ness, but also of the forms of rationality that many of the abstract the­ ories themselves denounce. While the...

Postmodernism emerged as a movement that opposed the dominant views of modernism in field art. Postmodernism, which originated architecture and gradually influenced many areas art, is discussed this study with focus on painting visual arts education. In high school programs Turkey, it important for students to be able examine past, embrace present, era, postmodern way thinking. When relevant li...

Ian McEwan, together with Martin Amis, is now the best-known and controversial contemporary British novelist. Atonement is regarded as the best of McEwan books and is shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It displays features of modernism and postmodernism, with the application of stream of consciousness, multiple voices, montage and flashbacks, becoming increasingly experimental in form.

Language and Social Sciences includes new and inedited contributions from Searle and Crea about topics such as speech acts and postmodernism. Their analyses of the relation between language and social sciences clarify their respective critiques to Habermas’ conception of speech acts and contribute specific insights that help to distinguish a free communicative act from one that includes psychol...