From Modernism to Postmodernism : An Anthology Expanded

by Cahoone, Lawrence E.

• ISBN13: 9780631232131
• ISBN10: 0631232133
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This revised and expanded second edition of Cahoone's classic anthology provides an unparalleled collection of the essential readings in modernism and postmodernism. The anthology puts contemporary debate in the context of the criticism of modernity since the seventeenth century, thus allowing the reader to appreciate postmodernism by first understanding the development of modernity. Chronologically and thematically arranged, this volumers"s breadth and depth of coverage ensures that it will be an indispensable and multidisciplinary resource in philosophy, literature, cultural studies, social theory, and religious studies.

Author Biography

Lawrence E. Cahoone is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. He is author of The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture, and Anticulture (1989), Civil Society: The Conservative Meaning of Liberal Politics (Blackwell 2002), and The Ends of Philosophy: Foundationalism, Pragmatism, and Postmodernism (Blackwell 2002).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction	1	(14)
Part I Modern Civilization and its Critics	15	(68)
Introduction to Part I	17	(2)
From Meditations on First Philosophy	19	(8)
Rene Descartes
From A Treatise on Human Nature	27	(5)
David Hume
From Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts	32	(6)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
From The Theory of Moral Sentiments	38	(7)
Adam Smith
``An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?'''	45	(9)
From the Preface to Critique of Pure Reason	49	(5)
Immanuel Kant
From Reflections on the Revolution in France	54	(9)
Edmund Burke
From Sketch for an Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind	63	(7)
Marquis De Condorcet
``Absolute Freedom and Terror''	70	(5)
G. W. F. Hegel
``Bourgeois and Proletarians''	75	(8)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Part II Modernity Realized	83	(136)
Introduction to Part II	85	(3)
From The Origin of Species	88	(8)
Charles Darwin
From ``The Painter of Modern Life''	96	(6)
Charles Baudelaire
From ``How to Make Our Ideas Clear''	102	(7)
Charles S. Peirce
``On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense''	109	(9)
``The Madman''	116	(1)
``How the 'True World' Finally Became a Fable''	117	(1)
The Dionysian World	117	(1)
Friedrich Nietzsche
``The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism''	118	(4)
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
From Course in General Linguistics	122	(5)
Ferdinand De Saussure
From ``Science as a Vocation''	127	(5)
Max Weber
From Towards a New Architecture	132	(7)
Le Corbusier
``Lecture on Ethics''	139	(5)
From Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus	143	(1)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
From Civilization and its Discontents	144	(5)
Sigmund Freud
From The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology	149	(10)
Edmund Husserl
From Dialetic of Enlightenment	159	(10)
Max Horkheimer
Theodor Adorno
From ``Existentialism''	169	(5)
Jean-Paul Sartre
``Letter on Humanism''	174	(21)
Martin Heidegger
``The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience''	195	(5)
Jacques Lacan
From ``The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions''	200	(9)
Thomas Kuhn
From The Coming of Post-Industrial Society	209	(10)
Daniel Bell
Part III Postmodernism and the Re-evaluation of Modernity	219	(382)
Introduction to Part III	221	(3)
French Post-Structuralism	224	(1)
``Differance''	225	(16)
Jacques Derrida
``Nietzsche, Genealogy, History''	241	(13)
From ``Truth and Power''	252	(2)
Michel Foucault
``The Sex Which is Not One''	254	(5)
Luce Irigary
From The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge	259	(19)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
From ``1227: Treatise on Nomadology -- The War Machine''	278	(20)
Gilles Deleuze
Felix Guattari
Critical Appropriations	297	(1)
``A Genealogy of Modern Racism''	298	(12)
Cornel West
``Subversive Signs''	310	(9)
Hal Foster
From ``Can the Subaltern Speak?''	319	(23)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
From ``From Feminist Empiricism to Feminist Standpoint Epistemologies''	342	(12)
Sandra Harding
``The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought and the Seventeenth-Century Flight from the Feminine''	354	(16)
Susan Bordo
From ``The Scaling of Bodies and the Politics of Identity''	370	(13)
Iris Marion Young
``Towards a Postmodern Pedagogy''	383	(7)
Henry A. Giroux
``Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism'''	390	(13)
Judith Butler
Beyond Critique	402	(1)
From Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture	403	(7)
Robert Venturi
``POSTmodernISM: A Paracritical Bibliography''	410	(11)
Ihab Hassan
From Symbolic Exchange and Death	421	(14)
Jean Baudrillard
From Erring: A Postmodern Altheology	435	(12)
Mark C. Taylor
``Solidarity or Objectivity?''	447	(10)
Richard Rorty
From ``The Death of Modern Architecture''	457	(7)
From What is Post-Modernism?	458	(6)
Charles Jencks
From ``A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s''	464	(18)
Donna Haraway
From The Reenchantment of Science	482	(14)
David Ray Griffin
``The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and a Reality that Remains Unknown''	496	(16)
Niklas Luhmann
From ``Modern China and the Postmodern West''	512	(9)
David Hall
Resistances and Alternatives	520	(1)
``Meaning and Sense''	521	(19)
Emmanuel Levinas
``Epistemology Naturalized''	540	(10)
W. V. Quine
``The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life, and the Concept of a Tradition''	550	(14)
Alasdair Macintyre
From ``The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism''	564	(11)
Fredric Jameson
``An Alternative Way Out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative versus Subject-Centered Reason''	575	(17)
Jurgen Habermas
``Is There Still Anything to Say about Reality and Truth?''	592	(9)
Hilary Putnam
Select Bibliography	601	(5)
Index	606