Encyclopedia of Postmodernism

Postmodernism has emerged as a critical cultural, political and intellectual concept and has significantly altered our understanding of every discipline from architecture to ethics, and history to politics. This new Encyclopedia of Postmodernism is structured with biographical entries on all the key contributors to the postmodernism debate, including Mikhail Bakhtin, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas and Wittgenstein. Providing an all-encompassing and welcome addition to the field, the Encyclopedia contains entries on foundational concepts of postmodernism which have revolutionized thinking in every intellectual discipline. Entries include: canonicity; deconstruction; grammatology; historicism; intertextuality; modernism; semiotics. Terminology and concepts are drawn from right across the disciplines from anthropology, sociology, linguistics and geography to film, French, gay and lesbian and critical legal studies. Advisory Board: Ales Debeljak ,University of Ljubliana, Sweden. Sander L. Gilman, University of Chicago, USA. E. Ann Kaplan, SUNY Stony Brook, USA. Charles H. Long, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. Theresa Sanders, Georgetown University, USA Louis A. Sass, Rutgers University, USA. Robert P. Scharlemann, University of Virginia, USA., Charles E. Scott, Penn State, USA. Mark C. Taylor, Williams College, USA. Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University, USA. Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University, USA. Entries include: * African American studies * Roland Barthes * binary opposition * Buddhism * comparative literature * cyberculture * death of God * Gilles Deleuze * desire * digital culture * end of history * globalization * grand narrative * improvisation * jouissance * logocentrism * metalanguage * sadism * theatre arts * trope * visuality * Cornell West Key features include: * over 300 entries * alphabetically arranged * fully cross-referenced * fully indexed * suggestions for further reading Thomas Altizer, USA, Philip Arnold, Syracuse University, USA, Stephen Barker, University of California at Irvine, USA, Robert Barsky, University of Western Ontario, Canada,

Table of Contents:
Introduction; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z;

About the Author :
Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist

Review :
'This encyclopedia follows others from the Routledge stable in showing a sure scholarly understanding of the ideas and critical cross-currents in the field' - Reference Reviews 'If postmodernism is about anything goes, and I do not think it is , the existence of this encyclopedia indicates that something stays, and that something is this stimulating reference work.' - Reference Reviews [April 2001] "The book will prove extremely useful as a quick reference source for both scholars and students." --Fred W Burnett, Anderson University, Religious Studies Review 'This encyclopedia follows others from the Routledge stable in showing a sure scholarly understanding of the ideas and critical cross-currents in the field' - Reference Reviews 'If postmodernism is about anything goes, and I do not think it is , the existence of this encyclopedia indicates that something stays, and that something is this stimulating reference work.' - Reference Reviews [April 2001]