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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Postmodernism As Discursive Event/Ingeborg Hoesterey
Interventions/Jacques Derrida
I. Revisiting Constitutive Discursive Practices. Architecture, Americanist Literary Criticism, and Anti-Greenbergian Art Scence
Postmodern vs. Late-Modern/Charles Jencks
The Problem of the Postmodern/C. Barry Chabot
The Notion of "Postmodern"/Clement Greenberg
The Unhappy Consciousness of Modernism/Donald B. Kuspit
The Originality of the Avant-Garde: A Postmodernist Repetition/Rosalind E. Krauss
II. The Debate in Philosophy and More Politics of Discourse
Habermas and Lyotard on Postmodernity/Richard Rorty
Habermas and Postmodernism/Martin Jay
Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics/Susan Rubin Suleiman
The End of (Hi)story/Gianni Vattimo
The (De-)Construction Sites of the Postmodern/Peter Koslowski
From the One to the Many: Pluralism in Today's Thought/Matei Calinescu
III. The Cultural Diversity of Modernism/Postmodernism Dialectics
Cinemas of Modernity and Postmodernity/Maureen Turim
Avant-Garde, Modern, Postmodern: The Music (almost) Nobody Wants to Hear/Jost Hermand
Has Modernist Music Lost Power?/Charles Boone
Postmoderism. Extension or End of Modernism? Theater between Cultural Crisis and Cultural Change/Erika Fischer-Lichte
Nodality or Plot Displaced. The Dynamics of Soller's H/David Hayman
A Correspondence on Postmodernism/Stefano Rosso/Umberto Eco
Bibliographical Note
Contributors
Index
