Postmodernism: A ReaderThomas Docherty The arguments over postmodernism are among the most important intellectual debates of our time. Going beyond the poststructuralist controversy in its interdisciplinary scope, postmodernism questions the fundamental civil, political, ethical, and cultural criteria that make criticism and theory available, necessary, legitimate, or, indeed, even possible. But given that the key texts are widely scattered, the broad range of arguments remains relatively unknown. Postmodernism: A Reader gathers in one volume a comprehensive selection of articles, essays, and statements by leading figures -- among them Lyotard, Habemas, Jameson, Baudrillard, Eco, and Rorty -- writing across the divergent terrains on which the struggles over postmodernism are taking place: in the fields of philosophy and politics, in the artistic and cultural avant-garde, architecture and urbanicity, feminism and ecology, and in the Third world. The material assembled here enables a serious and rigorous consideration of the question "Are we at -- and should we endore -- the end of modernity?" |
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Contents
Jean Baudrillard The Evil Demon of Images and The Precession | 13 |
Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson Social Criticism without | 30 |
Introduction | 35 |
JeanFrançois Lyotard Note on the Meaning of Post | 47 |
Fredric Jameson Postmodernism or The Cultural Logic of Late | 62 |
Introduction | 95 |
Gianni Vattimo The Structure of Artistic Revolutions | 110 |
David Cook The Last Days of Liberalism | 120 |
Achille Bonito Oliva The International TransAvantGarde | 257 |
Introduction | 265 |
Charles Jencks The Emergent Rules | 281 |
Robert Venturi The Duck and the Decorated Shed | 295 |
Paolo Portoghesi Postmodern | 308 |
Introduction | 319 |
Ernesto Laclau Politics and the Limits of Modernity | 329 |
André Gorz The Condition of PostMarxist Man | 344 |
Zygmunt Bauman The Fall of the Legislator | 128 |
Aesthetic and Cultural Practices | 141 |
Sally Banes Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers | 157 |
Douglas Crimp The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism | 172 |
A question | 180 |
Umberto Eco The City of Robots | 200 |
Michael Nyman Against Intellectual Complexity in Music | 206 |
Introduction | 217 |
Peter Bürger The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by | 237 |
JeanFrançois Lyotard The Sublime and the AvantGarde | 244 |
Jean Baudrillard Toward a Principle of Evil | 355 |
Introduction | 365 |
Sabina Lovibond Feminism and Postmodernism | 390 |
Fiction as stranger than | 433 |
Introduction | 445 |
Nelly Richard Postmodernism and Periphery | 463 |
A response | 471 |
Bibliography | 491 |
Acknowledgements | 512 |