Postmodernism | A Reader | Thomas Docherty | Taylor & Francis eBooks,

ABSTRACT

This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |31 pages

Postmodernism: An Introduction

part 1|60 pages

Founding Propositions

chapter 1|9 pages

Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?

chapter 2|4 pages

Note on the Meaning of ‘Post-'

chapter 3|11 pages

The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point

chapter 4|31 pages

Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

part 2|48 pages

Modernity Complete and Incomplete

chapter 5|12 pages

Modernity – An Incomplete Project

chapter 6|10 pages

The Structure of Artistic Revolutions

chapter 7|8 pages

The Last Days of Liberalism

chapter 8|13 pages

The Fall of the Legislator

part 3|73 pages

Aesthetic and Cultural Practices

chapter 9|11 pages

Toward a Concept of Postmodernism

chapter 10|15 pages

Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers

chapter 11|8 pages

The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism

chapter 12|14 pages

Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A question of ends

chapter 13|6 pages

The Evil Demon of Images and The Precession of Simulacra

chapter 14|6 pages

The City of Robots

chapter 15|8 pages

Against Intellectual Complexity in Music

part 4|48 pages

Crisis in the Avant-Garde

chapter 16|17 pages

The Search for Tradition: Avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s

chapter 17|7 pages

The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by the Avant-Garde

chapter 18|13 pages

The Sublime and the Avant-Garde

chapter 19|6 pages

The International Trans-Avant-Garde

part 5|54 pages

Architecture and Urbanicity

chapter 20|13 pages

Toward a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance

chapter 21|14 pages

The Emergent Rules

chapter 22|13 pages

The Duck and the Decorated Shed

chapter 23|9 pages

Postmodern

part 6|45 pages

Politics

chapter 24|6 pages

Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism

chapter 25|15 pages

Politics and the Limits of Modernity

chapter 26|11 pages

The Condition of Post-Marxist Man

chapter 27|7 pages

Toward a Principle of Evil

part 7|80 pages

Feminism

chapter 28|22 pages

Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism

chapter 29|25 pages

Feminism and Postmodernism

chapter 30|18 pages

Social Criticism without Philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism

chapter 31|10 pages

The Demise of Experience: Fiction as stranger than truth?

part 8|47 pages

Periphery and Postmodernism

chapter 32|15 pages

Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today

chapter 33|8 pages

Postmodernism and Periphery

chapter 34|19 pages

Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A response to the ‘postmodern' condition