Postmodernism: A Reader

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This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Postmodernism: An introduction PART ONE: Founding Propositions Introduction 1 Answering the Question: What is postmodernism? 2 Note on the Meaning Of ‘Post-’ 3 The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point 4 Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic Of Late Capitalism PART TWO: Modernity Complete and Incomplete Introduction 5 Modernity - An Incomplete Project 6 The Structure of Artistic Revolutions 7 The Last Days Of Liberalism 8 The Fall Of the Legislator PART THREE: Aesthetic and Cultural Practices Introduction 9 Toward a Concept Of Postmodernism 10 Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers 11 The Photographic Activity Of Postmodernism 12 Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A question Of ends 13 The Evil Demon of Images and The Precession Of Simulacra 14 The City Of Robots 15 Against Intellectual Complexity in Music PART FOUR: Crisis in the Avant-Garde Introduction 16 The Search for Tradition: Avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s 17 The Negation of the Autonomy Of Art by the Avant-Garde 18 The Sublime and the Avant-Garde 19 The International Trans-Avant-Garde PART FIVE: Architecture and Urbanicity Introduction 20 Toward a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance 21 The Emergent Rules 22 The Duck and the Decorated Shed 23 Postmodern PART SIX: Politics Introduction 24 Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism 25 Politics and the Limits Of Modernity 26 The Condition Of Post-Marxist Man 27 Toward a Principle Of Evil PART SEVEN: Feminism Introduction 28 Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism 29 Feminism and Postmodernism 30 Social Criticism without Philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism 31 The Demise Of Experience: Fiction as stranger than truth? PART EIGHT: Periphery and Postmodernism Introduction 32 Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today 33 Postmodernism and Periphery 34 Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A response to the ‘postmodern’ condition Bibliography Acknowledgements Index