Postmodernism

This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate.

Thomas Docherty is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Postmodernism: An Introduction; 1: Founding Propositions; 1: Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?; 2: Note on the Meaning of 'Post-'; 3: The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point; 4: Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; 2: Modernity Complete and Incomplete; 5: Modernity - An Incomplete Project; 6: The Structure of Artistic Revolutions; 7: The Last Days of Liberalism; 8: The Fall of the Legislator; 3: Aesthetic and Cultural Practices; 9: Toward a Concept of Postmodernism; 10: Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers; 11: The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism; 12: Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A question of ends; 13: The Evil Demon of Images and The Precession of Simulacra; 14: The City of Robots; 15: Against Intellectual Complexity in Music; 4: Crisis in the Avant-Garde; 16: The Search for Tradition: Avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s; 17: The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by the Avant-Garde; 18: The Sublime and the Avant-Garde; 19: The International Trans-Avant-Garde; 5: Architecture and Urbanicity; 20: Toward a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance; 21: The Emergent Rules; 22: The Duck and the Decorated Shed; 23: Postmodern; 6: Politics; 24: Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism; 25: Politics and the Limits of Modernity; 26: The Condition of Post-Marxist Man; 27: Toward a Principle of Evil; 7: Feminism; 28: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism; 29: Feminism and Postmodernism; 30: Social Criticism without Philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism; 31: The Demise of Experience: Fiction as stranger than truth?; 8: Periphery and Postmodernism; 32: Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today; 33: Postmodernism and Periphery; 34: Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A response to the 'postmodern' condition