Postmodernism Reader Foundational Texts

Name: Postmodernism Reader Foundational Texts
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ISBN: 9780415160841

ISBN-10: 0415160847

ISBN-13: 9780415160841

Edition: 2003

Authors: Michael Drolet

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Postmodernism too often seems to be an evasive body of ideas rather than a clear cut concept, mainly characterized by all-embracing assertions. Yet it can be referred to as an intellectual project with specific roots and a historical development.The PostmodernismReadertraces the origins, evolvement and the politics of postmodernism through the key writings of postmodernist thinkers. This collection of foundational essays restores the poignancy that has been lost - or even emphatically rejected - in the debate about postmodernism by focussing on central formative texts and the predominant thinkers we have come to associate with postmodernist theory. Michael Drolet's authoritative…

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.65" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction



The Crisis of Modernity and the birth of the Concept of Postmodernis


Introduction



Michel Foucault, What is enlightenment?



All That is Solid Melts into Air




The Order of Things




Nietzsche, Genealogy, History




Cogito and the History of Madness




Nietzsche and Philosophy




The Postmodern Condition: a Concept in Emergence


Introduction



The Postmodern Condition




Dissemination




Difference and Repetition




Theatrum Marshall Bermanphilosophicum




The Time of a thesis: punctuations




Immanence: A Life




The intimacy of Terror




Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism




Difference, Aesthetics, Politics and History: Postmodern Reflections


Introduction



The Differend




Sexual Difference




Answer to the Question: What is the Postmodern?




A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity




Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics and the Politics of Difference: an interview with Jean-Francois Lyotard




History and The Illusion of the End




Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx