Modern/postmodern : society, philosophy, literature /
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| Author / Creator: | Zima, P. V. |
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| Uniform title: | Moderne/Postmoderne. English |
| Imprint: | London ; New York : Continuum, c2010. |
| Description: | xi, 310 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8164918 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- I. Defining Modernity and Postmodernity
- 1. Problems of Construction: Modernity and Postmodernity as Periods, Ideologies, Styles and Problematics
- 2. Key Concepts: Modernity, Modernism, Postmodernity, Post-histoire and Post-industrial Society
- 3. Modernity, Modernism and Postmodernity as Problematics
- II. Modernity and Postmodernity in a Sociological Perspective
- 1. Critiques of Modernity: Universalism, Particularization and Social Movements
- 2. Feminist and Ecofeminist Critiques
- 3. A Conservative Postmodernity?
- 4. Marxist Critiques: For and against 'Postmodernity'
- 5. Pluralism, Indifference and Ideology
- 6. The Case of Baudrillard: Indifference without Ideology
- III. Postmodern Philosophies as Critiques of Modernity
- 1. Nietzsche' Heirs
- 2. Postmodern Social Philosophies and the End of Meta-Narratives: From Foucault, Deleuze and Lyotard to Vattimo and Rorty
- 3. Postmodern Epistemology I: Foucault, Deleuze, Vattimo and Rorty
- 4. Epistemology II: Language, Concept, Particularity - from Deleuze and Derrida to Vattimo
- 5. Epistemology III: Lyotard vs. Habermas
- 6. Ethics: From Lyotard and Bauman to Rorty
- 7. Aesthetics: Heterotopy and the Sublime, Allegory and Aporia
- IV. Modernism and Postmodernism: Literary Criticism
- 1. Construction Attempts
- 2. The Problematics of Modernism and Postmodernism: Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Indifference
- 3. Avant-garde, Popular Culture and postmodern 'De-differentiation'
- 4. Postmodernism as Poststructuralism : Iterability, Aporia and Intertextuality
- V. From Modern to Postmodern Literature: Ambivalence, Indifference and Ideology
- 1. Modernist Literature and Ambivalence: Between Nietzsche and Freud
- 2. Linguistic Aspects of Ambivalence
- 3. Critique of Truth, System and Subject: Critique of Modernity
- 4. Modernism and Critical Theory: Epilogue I
- 5. Postmodern Literature and Indifference: Critique of Metaphysics
- 6. Linguistic Aspects of Indifference
- 7. Beyond Truth and the Subject: Pluralism, Particularism, Indifference and Ideology
- 8. Postmodern Literature, Deconstruction and Pragmatism: Epilogue II
- VI. Dialogical Theory: Between the Universal and the Particular
- 1. Theory between Ideology and Indifference
- 2. The Theoretcial Dialogue: Language, Sociolect and Discourse
- 3. Conclusion: The Particular and the Universal in Postmodernity
- Bibliography
- Index
