Postmodernism: A Reader

by Thomas Docherty (Editor)

Overview

A comprehensive selection of articles, essays, and statements, by such leading figures in postmodernism as Lyotard, Habermas, Jameson, Eco and Rorty, that defines the end of modernism in philosophy, politics, the artistic and cultural avant-garde, architecture, urbanicity, feminism, and ecology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231082211
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	02/23/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.88(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Thomas Doherty is professor of english at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of Reading (Absent) Character; John Donne Undone; On Modern Authority; and After Theory: Postmodernism/Postmarxism.

Table of Contents

Part One: Founding Propositions
1. Answering the Question: What is postmodernism?; Jean-François Lyotard
2. Note on the Meaning of 'Post-'; Jean-François Lyotard
3. The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point; Jürgen Habermas
4. Postmodernism; or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson
Part Two: Modernity Compete and Incomplete
5. Modernity - An Incomplete Project; Jürgen Habermas
6. The Structure of Artistic Revolutions; Gianni Vattimo
7. The Last Days of Liberalism; David Cook
8. The Fall of the Legislator; Zygmunt Bauman
Part Three: Aesthetic and Cultural Practices
9. Toward a Concept of Postmodernism; Ihab Hassan
10. Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers; Sally Banes
11. The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism; Douglas Crimp
12. Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A question of ends; Paul Crowther
13. The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Simulacra; Jean Baudrillard
14. The City of Robots; Umberto Eco
15. Against Intellectual Complexity in Music; Michael Nyman
Part Four: Crisis in the Avant-Garde
16. The Search for Tradition: Avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s; Andreas Huyssen
17. The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by the Avant-Garde; Peter Bürger
18. The Sublime and the Avant-Garde; Jean-François Lyotard
19. The International Trans-Avant-Garde; Achille Bonito Oliva
Part Five: Architecture and Urbanicity
20. Toward a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance; Kenneth Frampton
21. The Emergent Rules; Charles Jencks
22. The Duckand the Decorated Shed; Robert Venturi
23. Postmodern; Paolo Portoghesi
Part Six: Politics
24. Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism; Richard Rorty
25. Politics and the Limits of Modernity; Ernest Laclau
26. The Condition of Post-Marxist Man; André Gorz
27. Toward a Principle of Evil; Jean Baudrillard
Part Seven: Feminism
28. Feminism; Reading, Postmodernism, Meaghan Morris
29. Feminism and Postmodernism; Sabina Lovibond
30. Social Criticsim without Philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism; Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson
31. The Demise of Experience: Fiction as stranger than truth?; Alice Jardine
Part Eight: Periphery and Postmodernism
32. Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today; Simon During
33. Postmodernism and Periphery; Nelly Richard
34. Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A response to the 'postmodern' condition; Rey Chow