Contributor
Docherty, Thomas.
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, c1993.
Descriptionxiv, 528 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Postmodernism: an introduction -- 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 COMPLETE 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.
Note: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 rulers / Charles Jencks -- 22. The duck and 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 / Ernesto 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 criticism without philosophy: an encounter between feminism and postmodernism / Nancy Fraser, Linda Nicholson -- 31. The demise of experience: fiction as stranger than truth? / Alice Jardine -- PART EIGHT: PERIPHERY AND POSTMODERNISM: 32. Postmodernism or post-colonialsim today / Simon During -- 33. Postmodernism and periphery / Nelly Richard -- 34. Rereading Mandarin ducks and butterflies: a response to the postmodern condition / Rey Chow.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 491-511) and index.
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