2. Edition - November 2010
38.90 Euro
2010. 352 Pages, Softcover
- Handbook/Reference Book -
ISBN-10: 0-470-74866-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-74866-4 - John Wiley & Sons








Short description
The reader reprints extracts of key historical texts - those of Daniel Bell on the post-industrial society and Jean-François Lyotard on the post-modern condition. The new cultural logic of contested pluralism is analysed in seminal papers by Andreas Hyssen and Jim Collins. The fundamental ideas on post-modern literature are defined by Umberto Eco, John Barth and David Lodge and the theories they present challenge the notion of post-modernism as an ultra avant-garde movement and the expression of a consumer society. For this second edition of the book, Charles Jencks presents a new overview of the Post-Modern, reflecting its maturity as a movement.

From the contents
Preface.

Charles Jencks: Post-Modernism - The Ism that Returns.

Part 1.

Defining the Post-Modern.

Charles Jencks: What Then Is Post-Modernism?

Jean-François Lyotard: Answering the Question" What Is Postmodernism?

Andreas Huyssen: Mapping the Postmodern.

Margaret A Rose: Defining the Post-Modern.

Part 2.

Literature and Architecture.

John Barth: The Literature of Replenishment.

Umberto Eco: The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable.

Linda Hutcheon: Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics.

Ihab Hassan: From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global Context.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Pillars and Posts: Fondations and Future of Post-Modernism.

Jane Jacobs: The Kind Problem a City Is.

Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.

Charles Jencks: The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity Paradigm.

Paolo Portoghesi: What Is the Postmodern?

Part 3.

Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science.

Zygmunt Bauman: Is There A Postmodern Sociology?

David Harvey: The Condition of Postmodernity.

Robin Murray: Fordism and Post-Fordism.

Anatole Kaletsky: 9/15 - The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics?

Susan Rubin Suleiman: Femiinism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics.

Craig Owens: The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism.

Tito Arecchi: Chaos and Complexity.

John Gray: Evangelical Atheism, Secular Christianity.

David Ray Griffin: The Reenchantment of Science.

David Bohm: Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World.

Charles Birch: The Postmodern Challenge to Biology.

Edward Goldsmith: Gaia and Evolution.

Index.