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Book SynopsisThe reader reprints extracts of key historical texts - those of Daniel Bell on the post-industrial society and Jean-Francois Lyotard on the post-modern condition. The new cultural logic of contested pluralism is analysed in seminal papers by Andreas Hyssen and Jim Collins.
Table of ContentsPreface
Charles Jencks 8
Post-Modernism – The Ism that Returns
Part 1 Defining the Post-Modern 12
Charles Jencks 14
What Then Is Post-Modernism?
Jean-François Lyotard 38
Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?
Andreas Huyssen 54
Mapping the Postmodern
Margaret A Rose 65
Defining the Post-Modern
Part 2 Literature and Architecture 82
John Barth 84
The Literature of Replenishment
Umberto Eco 95
The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable
Linda Hutcheon 98
Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics
Ihab Hassan 114
From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global Context
Felipe Fernández-Armesto 125
Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-Modernism
Jane Jacobs 138
The Kind of Problem a City Is
Robert Venturi 151
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Charles Jencks 162
The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity Paradigm
Paolo Portoghesi 178
What Is the Postmodern?
Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science 186
Zygmunt Bauman 188
Is There a Postmodern Sociology?
David Harvey 199
The Condition of Postmodernity
Robin Murray 220
Fordism and Post-Fordism
Anatole Kaletsky 232
9/15 – The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics?
Susan Rubin Suleiman 243
Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics
Craig Owens 260
The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism
Tito Arecchi 279
Chaos and Complexity
John Gray 284
Evangelical Atheism, Secular Christianity
David Ray Griffin 292
The Reenchantment of Science
David Bohm 314
Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World
Charles Birch 324
The Postmodern Challenge to Biology
Edward Goldsmith 332
Gaia and Evolution
Index 344
