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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 112. Chapters: Post-structuralism, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, Julia Kristeva, Felix Guattari, Post-processual archaeology, Emmanuel Levinas, Postmodernity, Modern history, Nondualism, Jean Baudrillard, Bracha L. Ettinger, Mario Perniola, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Sylvere Lotringer, Paul Virilio, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Henry Jenkins, Post-anarchism, Mi ko uvakovi, Philippe Sollers, Postmodern Christianity, Frank Popper, Hyperreality, Billy Kluver, Luce Irigaray, Henry Flynt, Mirror stage, The Imaginary, Coherence therapy, Roy Ascott, Abjection, Anthony Wilden, Jussi Parikka, Griselda Pollock, Name of the Father, The Symbolic, Objet petit a, The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, Interdiscourse, List of environmental philosophers, Barbara Czarniawska, The Real, Thierry de Duve, Transmodernism, Ihab Hassan, Schizoanalysis, Ecosophy, Lack, Dialogic, Desiring-production, Postmodern feminism, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Sinthome, Craig Owens, Dispositif, George Landow, Won-il Rhee, Cahiers pour l'Analyse, Cyborg theory, Mark Poster, Arthur Kroker, Gilles Lipovetsky, Michael Joyce, Jouissance, James Brusseau, Francoise Meltzer, Free Play, Monika Kostera, Discontinuity, Catherine Perret, Francoise Gaillard, Lacanian Ink, Char Davies, Surgency, Polysexuality, Problematization, Rolf Solli, John Van Maanen. Excerpt: Modern history, or the modern era, describes the historical timeline after the Middle Ages. Modern history can be further broken down into the early modern period and the late modern period after the Great Divergence. Contemporary history describes the span of historic events that are immediately relevant to the present time. The beginning of the modern era started approximately in the 16th century. Many major events caused Europe to change around the turn of the 16th century, starting with th...