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The post-modern reader / edited by Charles Jencks with Eva Branscome and Léa-Catherine Szacka.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: AD readerPublication details: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley, ©2011.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780470748671
  • 0470748672
  • 0470748664 (pbk.)
  • 9780470748664 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Postmodern Reader
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 149.97 JEN
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 inclusions 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.

A new edition of a classic anthology of 26 texts covering the full gamut of Post-Modern thought from architecture and literature to economics and theology. The reader includes key texts by John Barth, Umberto Eco, David Harvey, Jane Jacobs, Jean-François Lyotard and Robert Venturi. A book edited by the most influential figure behind the Post-Modern movement - Charles Jencks. A timely and informative publication for students that captures the renewed interest in Post-Modernism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Post-Modernism - The Ism that Returns (p. 8)
  • Part 1 Defining the Post-Modem (p. 12)
  • What Then Is Post-Modernism? (p. 14)
  • Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism? (p. 38)
  • Mapping the Postmodern (p. 54)
  • Defining the Post-Modern (p. 65)
  • Part 2 Literature and Architecture (p. 82)
  • The Literature of Replenishment (p. 84)
  • The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable (p. 95)
  • Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics (p. 98)
  • From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global Context (p. 114)
  • Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-Modernism (p. 125)
  • The Kind of Problem a City Is (p. 138)
  • Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (p. 151)
  • The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity Paradigm (p. 162)
  • What Is the Postmodern? (p. 178)
  • Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science (p. 186)
  • Is There a Postmodern Sociology? (p. 188)
  • The Condition of Postmodernity (p. 199)
  • Fordism and Post-Fordism (p. 220)
  • 9/15 - The Birthp'angs of Post-Modern Economics? (p. 232)
  • Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics (p. 243)
  • The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism (p. 260)
  • Chaos and Complexity (p. 279)
  • Evangelical Atheism, Secular Christianity (p. 284)
  • The Reenchantment of Science (p. 292)
  • Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World (p. 314)
  • The Postmodern Challenge to Biology (p. 324)
  • Gaia and Evolution (p. 332)
  • Index (p. 344)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Charles Jencks is an architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer, whose books on the history and criticism of Modernism and Post-Modernism are widely regarded throughout the world. His 1977 book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, which has .evolved over seven new editions, defined Post-Modernism as a cultural movement and popularised its use in relation to architecture. He is currently writing a new definitive book on the subject. The Story of Post-Modernism, for publication in the autumn of 2011 for Wiley. In recent years, Jencks has become a leading figure in landscape architecture. He continues to write and lecture internationally.

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