| Description |
x, 181 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Readers in cultural criticism |
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Readers in cultural criticism.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / Simon Malpas -- What is the Postmodern? -- 2. A Postmodern Fable / Jean-Francois Lyotard -- 3. Postmodernism and Consumer Society / Fredric Jameson -- 4. Modernity: an Unfinished Project / Jurgen Habermas -- 5. Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism? / Jean-Francois Lyotard -- Representation and Reality -- 6. The Gulf War: Is it Really Taking Place? / Jean Baudrillard -- 7. Deconstruction and Actuality / Jacques Derrida -- Marxism, Ideology and the Postmodern -- 8. Ideology, Discourse and the Problems of 'Post-Marxism' / Terry Eagleton -- 9. 'We Anti-Representationalists' / Richard Rorty -- Postmodernity, Identity, Gender -- 10. Postmodernism and Feminisms / Linda Hutcheon -- 11. Gender Trouble: From Parody to Polities / Judity Butler -- 12. Crises in Legitimation: Crossing the Great Voids / Alice A. Jardine -- The Postcolonial and the Postmodern -- 13. Postmodern Blackness / bell hooks |
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14. Locations of Culture: the Postcolonial and the Postmodern / Homi K. Bhabha -- The Politics of Postmodernity -- 15. Politics and the Limits of Modernity / Ernesto Laclau |
| Summary |
Postmodern Debates introduces modernity, postmodernism, and postmodernity through a series of debates between prominent thinkers in literary theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index |
| Subject |
Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Malpas, Simon.
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| LC no. |
2001021731 |
| ISBN |
0333765362 paperback |
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0333765354 |
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