About the Book
The Post-Modern Reader edited by Charles Jencks An Anthology of a World Movement Post-Modernism has been debated, attacked, and defended for a generation, but only in the last few years has it come into focus as a coherent way of thought embracing all areas of culture. This is the first anthology that presents the synthesising trend in all its diversity, a convergence in architecture and literature, film and cultural theory, sociology, feminism and theology, science and economics. It is however, a synthesis with a difference; it is one which stresses a contested pluralism, the dialogic that underlies the growth of sciences as well as the development of other art forms such as the novel. Some of the key historical texts are reprinted in part those of Daniel Bell on the post-industrial society and Jean-Francois Lyotard on the post-modern condition. The new cultural logic of contested pluralism is analysed in seminal papers by Andreas Huyssen 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. New Cultural Theory Late Modernism Literature, Art, Architecture and Film Sociology, Politics and Geography Feminism Science and Religion Tito Arecchi, John Barth, Jean Baudrillard, Daniel Bell, Charles Birch, David Bohm, Jim Collins, Norman K Denzin, Umberto Eco, Edward Goldsmith, David Ray Griffin, Jurgen Habermas, David Harvey, Ihab Hassan, Linda Hutcheon, Andreas Huyssen, Charles Jencks, Heinrich Klotz, Hans Kung, David Lodge, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Robin Murray, Craig Owens, Paolo Portoghesi, Margaret Rose, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Edward W Soja.
Table of Contents:
Charles Jencks, Preface 6 List of Contributors 8 Chapter One New Culture Theory Charles Jencks, The Postmodern Agenda 10; Andreas Huyssen, Mapping the Postmodern 40; Umberto Eco, Postscript to The Name of the Rose 73; Linda Hutcheon, Theorising the Postmodern 76; Jim Collins, Post-Modernism as Culmination 94; Margaret Rose, Defining the Post-Modern 119 Chapter Two Late Modernism as Post-modernism Jean-Francois Lyotard, What is Postmodernism? 138; Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication 151; Jurgen Habermas, Modernity: An Unfinished Project, 158 Chapter Three Literature, Art, Architecture, Film John Barth, The Literature of Replenishment 172; David Lodge, Mimesis and Diegesis in Modern Fiction 181; Ihab Hassan, Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective 196; Paolo Portoghesi, What is the Postmodern? 208; Charles Jencks, The Post-Avant-Garde 215; Norman K Denzin, Blue Velvet: Postmodern Contradictions 225; Heinrich Klotz, Postmodern Architecture 234 Chapter Four Sociology, Politics, Geography Daniel Bell, The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society 250; Robin Murray Fordism and Post-Fordism 267; Edward W Soja, Taking Los Angeles Apart 277; David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity 299 Chapter Five Feminism Susan Rubin Suleiman, Feminism and Postmodernism 318; Craig Owens, The Discourse of Others 333 Chapter Six Science and Religion Tito Arecchi, Chaos and Complexity 350; David Ray Griffin, The Reenchantment of Science 354; David Ray Griffin, Creativity and Postmodern Religion 373; David Bohm, Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World 383; Charles Birch, The Postmodern Challenge to Biology 392; Edward Goldsmith, Gala and Evolution 399; Hans Kung, Why We Need a Global Ethic 409
