The postmodernism reader : foundational texts /

Main Author: Drolet, Michael, 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York: Routledge, 2004
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Introduction Chapter I - The Crisis of Modernity and the birth of the Concept of Postmodernism Introduction 1. Michel Foucault, What is enlightenment? 2. Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts into Air. 3. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things. 4. Michel Foucault, Nietzsche, Genealogy, History. 5. Jacques Derrida, Cogito and the History of Madness. 6. Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy. Chapter II - The Postmodern Condition: a Concept in Emergence. Introduction 7. Jean-Franc?ois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition. 8. Jacques Derrida, Dissemination. 9. Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition. 10. Michel Foucault, Theatrum philosophicum. 11. Jacques Derrida, The Time of a thesis: punctuations. 12. Gilles Deleuze, Immanence: A Life. 13. Jean-Franc?ois Lyotard, The intimacy of Terror. 14. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism. Chapter III - Difference, Aesthetics, Politics and History: Postmodern Reflections. Introduction 15. Jean-Franc?ois Lyotard, The Differend. 16. Luce Irigaray, Sexual Difference. 17. Jean-Franc?ois Lyotard, Answer to the Question: What is the Postmodern? 18. Zygmunt Bauman, A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity. 19. W. van Reijen and D. Veerman, Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics and the Politics of Difference: an interview with Jean-Franc?ois Lyotard. 20. Jean Baudrillard, History and The Illusion of the End. 21. Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx. Notes
  • Glossary of Names
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index