From modernism to postmodernism : an anthology

Author(s)

• Cahoone, Lawrence E.

Bibliographic Information

From modernism to postmodernism : an anthology

[edited by] Lawrence E. Cahoone

Blackwell Publishers, 1996

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9781557866028

Description

Motivated by the assumption that students cannot appreciate philosophical postmodernism without first understanding the development of modernity, this anthology puts the contemporary philosophical debate over postmodernism in the context of the development and criticism of modernity since the 17th century. Half of the 42 selections are devoted to postmodernism in philosophy, literature and architecture, and its critics; and half to the formation and criticism of modernity from the 17th through the mid-20th centuries. Intellectual precusors of current postmodernists are systematically included. The result is a collection of writings from Descartes to Derrida. Selected authors include: Rousseau, Burke, Kant, Marx, Peirce, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Le Corbusier, Adorno, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Hassan, Lyotard, Irigary, Rorty, Habermas and MacIntyre. An editor's introduction defines the problems raised by postmodernism, and introductory paragraphs help to contextualize each selection.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Modern civilization and its critics: from "Meditations on First Philosophy", Rene Descartes
• from "Discourse on the Science and the Arts", Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• from "An Answer to the Question - What is Enlightenment?", Immanuel Kant
• from "Reflections on the Revolution in France", Edmund Burke
• from "Sketch for an Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind", Marquis de Condorcet
• "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• "Bourgeois and Proletarians", Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• "The Mad Man" and "The Natural History of Morals", from "The Genealogy of Morals", Friedrich Nietzsche. Part 2 Modernity realized: "The Painter of Modern Life", Charles Baudelaire
• "How to Make Our Ideas Clear", Charles S. Peirce
• from "The Protestant Ethic" and "The Spririt of Capitalism" and from "Science as a Vocation", Max Weber
• from "Course in General Linguistics", Fernand de Saussure
• "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism", Fillippo Tommaso Marinetti
• "Lecture on Ethics", from "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", Ludwig Wittgenstein
• from "Towards a New Architecture", Le Corbusier
• from "Civilization and Its Discontents", Sigmund Freud
• "The Crowd Phenomenon", Jose Ortega y Gasset
• from "The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology", Edmund Husserl
• from "Dialectic of Enlightenment", Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
• "Existentialism", Jean-Paul Sartre. Part 3 Postmodernism and the Revaluation of Modernity: "Letter on Humanism", Martin Heidegger
• "The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions", Thomas Kuhn
• from "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture", Robert Venturi
• "The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing", Jacques Derrida
• "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History", from "Truth and Power", Michel Foucault
• "Postmodernism: A Paracritical Bibliography", Ihab Hassan
• from "The Desiring-Machines", Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. (Part contents)

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781557866035

Description

From Modernism to Postmodernism is the most authoritative and comprehensive collection of the key classic and contemporary readings of postmodernity and modernity.Motivated by the assumption that students cannot appreciate postmodernism without first understanding the development of modernity, this anthology puts contemporary debate in the context of the criticism of modernity since the seventeenth century. Selected authors include: Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, Burke, Hegel, Marx, Peirce, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Huesserl, Wittgenstein, Adorno, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Irigaray, Rorty, and MacIntyre, amongst others.

Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Modern Civilization and its Critics: 1. From Meditations on First Philosophy: Rene Descartes. 2. From Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 3. An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment: Immanuel Kant. 4. From Reflections on the Revolution in France: Edmund Burke. 5. From Sketch for an Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind: Marquis de Condoret. 6. Absolute Freedom and Terror: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. 7. Bourgeois and Proletarians: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. 8. The Madman: The Natural History of Morals From The Genealogy of Morals and The Will to Power: Friedrich Nietzsche. Part II: Modernity Realized: 9. The Painter of Modern Life: Charles Baudelaire. 10. How to Make Our Ideas Clear: Charles S. Peirce. 11. From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism From Science as a Vocation: Max Weber. 12. From Course in General Linguistics: Ferdinand de Saussure. 13. The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. 14. Lecture on Ethics From Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Ludwig Wittgenstein. 15. From Towards a New Architecture: Le Corbusier. 16. From Civilization and its Discontents: Sigmund Freud. 17. The Crowd Phenomenon: Jose Ortega y Gasset. 18. From The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: Edmund Husserl. 19. From Dialectic of Enlightenment: Max HorkHeimer and Theodor Adorno. 20. From Existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre. Part III: Postmodernism and the Revaluation of Modernity: 21. Letter on Humanism: Martin Heidegger. 22. The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions: Thomas Kuhn. 23. From Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: Robert Venturi. 24. The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing: Jacques Derrida. 25. Nietzsche, Genealogy, History From Truth and Power: Michel Foucault. 26. POSTmodernISM: A Paracritical Bibliography: Ihab Hassan. 27. From Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. 28. From The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: Daniel Bell. 29. From Symbolic Exchange and Death: Jean Baudrillard. 30. The Sex Which is Not One: Luce Irigaray. 31. The Death of Modern Architecture From What Is Post-Modernism? : Charles Jencks. 32. From The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge: Jean Francois Lyotard. 33. From Erring: A Postmodern A/theology: Mark C. Taylor. 34. The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition: Alasdair MacIntyre. 35. From The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Fredric Jameson. 36. Solidarity or Objectivity? : Richard Rorty. 37. An Alternative Way out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative versus Subject-Centred Reason: Jurgen Habermas. 38. From From Feminist Empiricism to Feminist Standpoint Epistemologies: Sandra Harding. 39. The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought: Susan Bordo. 40. From The Reenchantment of Science: David Ray Griffin. 41. Towards a Postmodern Pedagogy: Henry A. Giroux. 42. From Modern China and the Postmodern West: David Hall. SelectBibliography. Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA27070226
• ISBN:
  • 1557866023
  • 1557866031
• LCCN: 95011583
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, MA
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 731 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 130
  • LCC : B831.2
  • DC20 : 149
  • NDC8 : 130
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Postmodernism