Postmodernism: a reader

Answering the question : what is postmodernism? ; Note on the meaning of post / Jean-François Lyotard The entry into postmodernity : Nietzsche as a turning point / Jürgen Habermas Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism / Fredric Jameson Modernity - an incomplete project / Jürgen Habermas The structure of artistic revolutions / Gianni Vattimo The last days of liberalism / David Cook The fall of the legislator / Zygmunt Bauman Toward a concept of postmodernism / Ihab Hassan Introduction to Terpsichore in sneakers / Sally Banes The photographic activity of postmodernism / Douglas Crimp Postmodernism in the visual arts : a question of ends / Paul Crowther The evil demon of images and The precession of simulacra / Jean Baudrillard The city of robots / Umberto Eco Against intellectual complexity in music / Michael Nyman

The search for tradition : avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s / Andreas Huyssen The negation of the autonomy of art by the avant-garde / Peter Bürger The sublime and the avant-garde / Jean-François Lyotard The international trans-avant-garde / Achille Bonito Oliva Toward a critical regionalism : six points for an architecture of resistance / Kenneth Frampton The emergent rules / Charles Jencks The duck and the decorated shed / Robert Venturi Postmodern / Paolo Portoghesi Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism / Richard Rorty Politics and the limits of modernity / Ernesto Laclau The condition of post-Marxist man / André Gorz Toward a principle of evil / Jean Baudrillard Feminism, reading, postmodernism / Meaghan Morris Feminism and postmodernism / Sabina Lovibond

Social criticism without philosophy : an encounter between feminism and postmodernism / Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson

The demise of experience : fiction as stranger than truth? / Alice Jardine

Postmodernism or post-colonialism today / Simon During

Postmodernism and periphery / Nelly Richard

Rereading mandarin ducks and butterflies : a response to the postmodern condition / Rey Chow.