Postmodernism and the re-reading of modernity
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Postmodernism and the re-reading of modernity
（The Essex symposia : literature, politics, theory）
Manchester University Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Whatever else can be said about the debates surrounding postmodernism, it must be acknowledged that in recent years it has proved the most important theme for cross-disciplinary forums. This is attested to by the variety of disciplines - philosophy, literary criticism and theory, art history, political science - represented here. Each field of study naturally inflects the terms modernity, modernism and postmodernism in somewhat different ways. The multiplicity of disciplinary perspectives involved in the debate is complemented by its international nature: quite distinctive formulations of the problematic come from writers in France, Germany, the USA and Great Britain, which are in turn linked to the political, cultural and intellectual histories of these countries. One of the motivations for organizing the three-day Symposium on which this volume is based was to ventilate these disciplinary and national differences in a context where extended discussion was possible.
Table of Contents
- "Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological category" - notes on the "Angelus Novus"?
- dialectics of differential historical time, Peter Osborne
- Watching the detectives, Kristin Ross
- the long run of modernity, or an essay on post-dating, Adrien Rifkin
- suffering from reminiscences, Michael Newman
- traducing history - Benjamin, language, politics, Kenneth Lea
- science fiction and postmodernity, Jonathan Benison
- down the road, or, history rehearsed, Elaine Jordan
- spectators of postmodern art - from minimalism to feminism, Margaret Iversen
- rethinking the public sphere - a contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy, Nancy Fraser
- is enlightenment emancipatory? - a feminist reading of "What is Enlightenment?", Janet Flax
- whistling in the dark - affirmation and despair in postmodernism, Jay Bernstein
- writing in the lifeworld - deconstruction as a paradigm of a transition to postmodernity, Peter Dews.
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