The Post-modern reader /
edited by Charles Jencks.
- London : Academy Editions, 1992.
- 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Feminism and postmodernism / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- The discourse of others / Craig Owens -- Chaos and complexity / Tito Arecchi -- The reenchantment of science / David Ray Griffin -- Creativity and postmodern religion / David Ray Griffin -- Postmodern science and a postmodern world / David Bohm -- The postmodern challenge to biology / Charles Birch -- Gaia and evolution / Edward Goldsmith -- Why we need a global ethic / Hans Ku·ng. The postmodern agenda / Charles Jencks -- Mapping the postmodern / Andreas Huyssen -- Postscript to The name of the rose / Umberto Eco -- Theorising the postmodern / Linda Hutcheon -- Post-modernism as culmination / Jim Collins -- Defining the post-modern / Margaret Rose -- What is postmodernism? / Jean-Francıois Lyotard -- The ecstasy of communication / Jean Baudrillard -- Modernity : an unfinished project / Ju·rgen Habermas -- The literature of replenishment / John Barth -- Mimesis and diegesis in modern fiction / David Lodge -- Pluralism in postmodern perspective / Ihab Hassan -- What is the postmodern? / Paolo Portoghesi -- The post-avant-garde / Charles Jencks -- Blue velvet : postmodern contradictions / Norman K. Denzin -- Postmodern architecture / Heinrich Klotz -- The coming of the post-industrial society / Daniel Bell -- Fordism and post-Fordism / Robin Murray -- Taking Los Angeles apart / Edward W. Soja -- The condition of postmodernity / David Harvey --
An anthology which presents the synthesizing trend of post-modernism in all its diversity: a convergence in architecture and literature, film and cultural theory, sociology and politics after the fall of communism, feminism and theology, and science and economics.