The Post-Modern Reader
2nd Edition
Published on 19. November 2010
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Hardback
352 pages
978-0-470-74867-1 (ISBN)
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The reader reprints extracts of key historical texts - those of Daniel Bell on the post-industrial society and Jean-François Lyotard on the post-modern condition. The new cultural logic of contested pluralism is analysed in seminal papers by Andreas Hyssen 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. For this second edition of the book, Charles Jencks presents a new overview of the Post-Modern, reflecting its maturity as a movement.
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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 popularised its use in relation to architecture. In recent years, Jencks has become a leading figure in landscape architecture. He continues to write and lecture internationally.
Content
Preface. Charles Jencks: Post-Modernism - The Ism that Returns.
Part 1 Defining the Post-Modern.
Charles Jencks: What Then Is Post-Modernism?
Jean-Francois Lyotard: Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?
Andreas Huyssen: Mapping the Postmodern.
Margaret A Rose: Defining the Post-Modern.
Part 2 Literature and Architecture.
John Barth: The Literature of Replenishment.
Umberto Eco: The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable.
Linda Hutcheon: Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics.
Ihab Hassan: From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global Context.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-Modernism.
Jane Jacobs: The Kind of Problem a City Is.
Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
Charles Jencks: The Language of Post-Modern and the Complexity Paradigm.
Paolo Portoghesi: What Is the Postmodern?
Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science.
Zygmunt Bauman: Is There a Postmodern Sociology?
David Harvey: The Condition of Postmodernity.
Robin Murray: Fordism and Post-Fordism.
Anatole Kaletsky: 9/15 - The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics?
Susan Rubin Seleiman: Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics.
Craig Owens: The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism.
Tito Arecchi: Chaos and Complexity.
John Gray: Evangelical Atheism, Secular Christianity.
David Ray Griffin: The Reenchantment of Science.
David Bohm: Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World.
Charles Birch: The Postmodern Challenge to Biology.
Edward Goldsmith: Gaia and Evolution.
Index.
Part 1 Defining the Post-Modern.
Charles Jencks: What Then Is Post-Modernism?
Jean-Francois Lyotard: Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?
Andreas Huyssen: Mapping the Postmodern.
Margaret A Rose: Defining the Post-Modern.
Part 2 Literature and Architecture.
John Barth: The Literature of Replenishment.
Umberto Eco: The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable.
Linda Hutcheon: Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics.
Ihab Hassan: From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global Context.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-Modernism.
Jane Jacobs: The Kind of Problem a City Is.
Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
Charles Jencks: The Language of Post-Modern and the Complexity Paradigm.
Paolo Portoghesi: What Is the Postmodern?
Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science.
Zygmunt Bauman: Is There a Postmodern Sociology?
David Harvey: The Condition of Postmodernity.
Robin Murray: Fordism and Post-Fordism.
Anatole Kaletsky: 9/15 - The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics?
Susan Rubin Seleiman: Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics.
Craig Owens: The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism.
Tito Arecchi: Chaos and Complexity.
John Gray: Evangelical Atheism, Secular Christianity.
David Ray Griffin: The Reenchantment of Science.
David Bohm: Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World.
Charles Birch: The Postmodern Challenge to Biology.
Edward Goldsmith: Gaia and Evolution.
Index.