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The postmodern

Author: Simon Malpas
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series: New critical idiom.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Simon Malpas
ISBN: 0415280648 9780415280648 0415280656 9780415280655 9780203307120 0203307127
OCLC Number: 54966261
Description: vi, 148 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The plurality of the postmodern. Defining the postmodern --
Postmodernisms and postmodernities --
1. Modernism and postmodernism. Architecture: modernism and postmodernism --
Modernism and postmodernism in art --
Reading the postmodern text: Postmodernism and literature --
Postmodernism as immanent critique --
Postmodernism and postmodernity --
2. Modernity and postmodernity. The Postmodern Condition: Jean-Francois Lyotard --
The meaning of 'post-' --
Defining modernity --
Jurgen Habermas and the discourse of modernity --
3. Subjectivity. The modern subject: Descartes, Kant and Wordsworth --
Disrupting subjectivity: Freud, Fanon and Cixous --
The postmodern subject: The inhuman, cyborgs and matrices --
4. History. Modern history: Hegel and Scott --
Postmodernity and the 'End of History': Fukuyama and Baudrillard --
finite history and history as narrative --
Re-imagining history: postmodern fiction --
5. Politics. Modern politics and critique: Marx --
postmodernity and 'Late Capialism': Jameson --
Postmodern consumption and simulation: Buadrillard --
Postmodern politics: resistance without foundations.
Series Title: New critical idiom.
Responsibility: Simon Malpas.
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