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Summary: A Former Student
Review: As a former high school student of Ray Linn, and as a current college freshmen, it was to my advantage that I have read his book. He introduces and then simplifies a tough subject matter with clarity and distinctness. He rocks!
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Summary: core baby
Review: as a student of ray linn, i appreciated this book in that it simplified a topic very hard to comprehend in a cohesive manner. He highly simplified postmodernism to me challenging our intelligence and actually making us interested in the pursuit of enhancing our intellectual capacity... awesome in totality...core is one of the toughest most intellectually challenging program in the world...and linn although a very tough teacher guided me and all the other core babies successfully through it... LONG LIVE CORE AND ALL ITS BABIES... cleveland high school rocks....
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Summary: Post Moderism ROCKS!
Review: As a young student of the wise Ray Linn I was always astounded by his ability to simplify complicated philosphical ideas. Ideas such as Post Modernism. Using this book I was able to easily understand key Post Modern ideas and write about them clearly. I feel there aren't enough writers like Ray out there and the few that are should be recognized for there genius in writing great books. ALRIGHT!
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Summary: Uncomplicating a Complex Subject as Much as Possible
Review: I am an English professor at a small university in South Carolina, and I have been looking for a book that my students could read as an introduction to 20th century literary movements, so I checked out Mr. Linn's book from the campus library to evaluate it.The book was not what I expected in that university English Departments normally classify certain works of western literature written after World War I (roughly) as "modernism," and certain works of western literature written after World War II as "postmodernism." However, this is not what Mr. Linn's book focuses on (yes, I end sentences with prepositions--Bishop Lowth be damned!). Instead of addressing "modern" and "postmodern" literature as 20th century literary movements (or even as movements in the other arts), Mr. Linn takes us back to the concepts of modern and postmodern philosophy. As I read Mr. Linn's book, I suddenly recalled a little slogan my philosophy professor drummed into my head way back when I was a freshman: "Modern thought begins in doubt with Descartes." With all due apologies to my old professor, Dr. Harbison (and he must be "old" by now), I never really understood what that slogan meant--and I forgot all about it as the years passed (probably at the end of that freshman semester, in fact). However, in an almost Proustian fashion, Mr. Linn was able to bring up that long-forgotten nugget that I did not know I possessed deep in my memory--and now the slogan makes sense! The ideas in the first chapter of the book are probably too complex for my freshman and sophomore students to fully grasp (Mr. Linn's former high school students who have posted reviews here must be extraordinary--though I suspect he might be teaching more advanced students than the ones who normally enroll at my university). However, I found that Mr. Linn has done an excellent job of taking very complex ideas and presenting them in a manner that is accessible to thoughtful readers without "dumbing down" the concepts. I have read one other book in this "Teacher's Introduction to" series, and I was completely disappointed with that book because the concepts were not presented accurately after they had been "dumbed down" for the layperson to understand--but this is not the case with Mr. Linn's book. He makes modern and postmodern thought accessible to his readers in the same manner that Stephen Hawking makes contemporary theories in physics accessible in A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (a book that the majority of my students also would not be able to fully grasp).
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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: Never before have I read such magnificance in all my years as a college student. This has inspired me to further pursue my interests in the post-modern world. I trust that all educated scholars will appreciate this work filled with ideas concerning the existence of every individual. I ardently recommmend this book to anyone who has the time to contemplate over his or her post-modern existence.
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Summary: Inspirational Book
Review: Ray Linn has truly captured America's newest passion, Postmodernism, in this provactive book. One might think that when reading this book that you are sitting in a rustic cabin in the sekoyas, sitting next to the fire while Ray Linn tells you how postmodern thought has influenced most of western literature, art and social structure. Way to go Ray!
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Summary: Jumping on the ex-Linn student bandwagon
Review: Well, it certainly seems as though quite a few CHS alums have come on to [...] to sing the praises of our old H.S. philosophy teacher. While he was a remarkable teacher, and the fact that he enabled H.S. seniors to actually understand postmodernism is truly remarkable, I think no greater praise can be offered to A Teacher's Instruction to Postmodernism than this:
As I sit here, a second year graduate student in philosophy, sweating over the intricacies of Wittgenstein's writing, it is this book that serves as my lifeline to understanding these theories. Yes, a book that was comprehensable as a 12th grade student, it serving as my most valuable resource.
Thanks Ray!
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