Histories of Postmodernism

Name: Histories of Postmodernism
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ISBN: 9780415956130

ISBN-10: 0415956137

ISBN-13: 9780415956130

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, Sara Rushing

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Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism. The increasingly dominant historical narrative depicts a relatively smooth development of ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, through a range of French theorists, most notably Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, to contemporary American thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Edward Said, and Judith Butler. Histories of Postmodernism challenges this narrative by highlighting the local contexts of relevant theorists and thus the crucial distinctions that divide successive articulations of the themes and concepts associated with postmodernism. As postmodern…

Book details

List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/18/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 274
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Histories of Postmodernism




Honesty as the Best Policy: Nietzsche on Redlichkeit and the Contrast between Stoic and Epicurean Strategies of the Self




Escape from the Subject: Heidegger's Das Man and Being-in-the-World




A Rock and a Hard Place: Althusser, Structuralism, Communism and the Death of the Anticapitalist Left




Hammer without a Master: French Phenomenology and the Origins of Deconstruction (Or, How Derrida Read Heidegger)




"A Kind of Radicality": The Avant-Garde Legacy in Postmodern Ethics




Derrida's Engagement with Political Philosophy




From the "Death of Man" to Human Rights: The Paradigm Change in French Intellectual Life




"The Democratic Literature of the Future": Richard Rorty, Postmodernism, and the American Poetic Tradition




The Secular and the Post-Secular in the Thought of Edward Said




Longing for a "Certain Kind of Future": Drucilla Cornell, Sexual Difference, and the Imaginary Domain



List of Contributors


Index