Rethinking postmodernism: The vices of the postmodern world by Gheorghe Crăciun
Rethinking postmodernism: The vices of the postmodern world by Gheorghe Crăciun

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at investigating the way in which the contemporary author Gheorghe Crăciun sees and analyzes a series of what he calls vicious concepts. The Vices of the Postmodern World, his book which comprises a set of articles he published in Observator Cultural Magazine, looks into ideas such as consumerism, diversity, uniqueness or imitation but in the larger context of postmodernism, mainly Romanian postmodernism. At the same time, he calls into question the way in which every one of these vicious concepts establishes itself and functions at the level of the imagery, again in the context of the Romanian society and its frame of mind. The aim is to write a book without references, born out of real living and out of the author's own schizoid view of the culture, as he himself declares. Each of the eleven short but at the same time very intense articles brings forward one essential aspect of the postmodern culture and society and so an analysis of these pieces can reveal not only the main cultural obsessions of the author's later years but it can also add to Crăciun's older writing in order to get a glimpse of what stays the same and what changes in the writer's view on postmodernism.

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