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Post-Modernism has been debated, attacked and defended for over three decades. It is, however, not just a fashion or style but part of a greater movement in all areas of culture, and one which stubbornly persists like its parent, Modernism. The Post-Modern Reader is a seminal anthology that presents this trend in all its diversity, as a convergence in architecture and literature, sociology and cultural theory, feminism and theology, science and economics. For this new edition, editor Charles Jencks has provided an entirely new definitive introductory essay 'What Then Is Post-Modernism?' that reflects on the movement's coming of age. The book also encompasses essential classic texts on the subject by John Barth, Umberto Eco, David Harvey, Jane Jacobs, Jean-François Lyotard and Robert Venturi, while incorporating new articles by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, John Gray, Ihab Hassan and Anatole Kaletsky. Each text is introduced and contextualized got the reader with a new short introductory passage. A new edition of a classic anthology of 26 texts covering the full gamut of Post-Modern thought from architecture and literature to economics and theology. The Reader includes key texts by John Barth, Umberto Eco, David Harvey, Jane Jacobs, Jean-François Lyotard and Robert Venturi. A book edited by the most influential figure behind the Post-Modern movement – Charles Jencks. A timely and informative publication for students that captures the renewed interest in Post-Modernism.

Table of Contents:
Preface Charles Jencks 8 Post-Modernism – The Ism that Returns Part 1 Defining the Post-Modern 12 Charles Jencks 14 What Then Is Post-Modernism? Jean-François Lyotard 38 Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism? Andreas Huyssen 54 Mapping the Postmodern Margaret A Rose 65 Defining the Post-Modern Part 2 Literature and Architecture 82 John Barth 84 The Literature of Replenishment Umberto Eco 95 The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable Linda Hutcheon 98 Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics Ihab Hassan 114 From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global Context Felipe Fernández-Armesto 125 Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-Modernism Jane Jacobs 138 The Kind of Problem a City Is Robert Venturi 151 Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Charles Jencks 162 The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity Paradigm Paolo Portoghesi 178 What Is the Postmodern? Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science 186 Zygmunt Bauman 188 Is There a Postmodern Sociology? David Harvey 199 The Condition of Postmodernity Robin Murray 220 Fordism and Post-Fordism Anatole Kaletsky 232 9/15 – The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics? Susan Rubin Suleiman 243 Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics Craig Owens 260 The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism Tito Arecchi 279 Chaos and Complexity John Gray 284 Evangelical Atheism, Secular Christianity David Ray Griffin 292 The Reenchantment of Science David Bohm 314 Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World Charles Birch 324 The Postmodern Challenge to Biology Edward Goldsmith 332 Gaia and Evolution Index 344 

About the Author :
Charles Jencks is an architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer, whose books on the history and criticism of Modernism and Post-Modernism are widely regarded throughout the world. His 1977 book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, which has evolved over seven new editions, defined Post-Modernism as a cultural movement and popularized its use in relation to architecture. He is currently writing a new definitive book on the subject, The Story of Post-Modernism, for publication in the autumn of 2011 for Wiley. In recent years, Jencks has become a leading figure in landscape architecture. He continues to write and lecture internationally.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780470748664
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 169 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0470748664
  • Publisher Date: 19 Nov 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: AD Reader
  • Weight: 616 gr


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