Post-Modernism -- The Ism that Returns / Charles Jencks -- pt. 1 Defining the Post-Modern -- What Then is Post-Modernism? / Charles Jencks -- Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism? / Jean-Francois Lyotard -- Mapping the Postmodern / Andreas Huyssen -- Defining the Post-Modern / Margaret A Rose -- pt. 2 Literature and Architecture -- The Literature of Replenishment / John Barth -- The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable / Umberto Eco -- Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics / Linda Hutcheon -- From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global Context / Ihab Hassan -- Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-Modernism / Felipe Fernandez-Armesto -- The Kind of Problem a City Is / Jane Jacobs -- Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture / Robert Venturi -- The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity Paradigm / Charles Jencks -- What is the Postmodern? / Paolo Portoghesi -- pt. 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science -- Is There a Postmodern Sociology? / Zygmunt Bauman -- The Condition of Postmodernity / David Harvey -- Fordism and Post-Fordism / Robin Murray -- 9/15 -- The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics? / Anatole Kaletsky -- Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism / Craig Owens -- Chaos and Complexity / Tito Arecchi -- Evangelical Atheism, Secular Christianity / John Gray -- The Reenchantment of Science / David Ray Griffin -- Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World / David Bohm -- The Postmodern Challenge to Biology / Charles Birch -- Gaia and Evolution / Edward Goldsmith.
"Post-Modernism has been debated, attacked and defended for over three decades. It is, however, not just a fashion or style but part of a greater movement in all areas of culture, and one which stubbornly persists like its parent, Modernism. The Post-Modern Reader is a seminal anthology that presents this trend in all its diversity, as a convergence in architecture and literature, sociology and cultural theory, feminism and theology, science and economics. For this new edition, editor Charles Jencks has provided an entirely new definitive introductory essay 'What Then Is Post-Modernism?' that reflects on the movement's coming of age. The book also encompasses essential classic texts on the subject by John Barth, Umberto Eco, David Harvey, Jane Jacobs, Jean-François Lyotard and Robert Venturi, while incorporating new articles by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, John Gray, Ihab Hassan and Anatole Kaletsky. Each text is introduced and contextualised for the reader with a new short introductory passage."--Page 4 of cover.