From Modernism to Postmodernism

by Cahoone, Lawrence E.

• ISBN13: 9781557866035
• ISBN10: 1557866031
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Blackwell Pub

Summary

From Modernism to Postmodernism is the most authoritative and comprehensive collection of the key classic and contemporary readings of postmodernity and modernity.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
From Meditations on First Philosophy	p. 29
From "Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts"	p. 41
"An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?"	p. 51
From Reflections on the Revolution in France	p. 58
From Sketch for an Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind	p. 72
"Absolute Freedom and Terror"	p. 83
"Bourgeois and Proletarians"	p. 91
"The Madman"	p. 102
"The Natural History of Morals"	p. 104
From The Genealogy of Morals	p. 120
From The Will to Power	p. 130
"The Painter of Modern Life"	p. 136
"How to Make Our Ideas Clear"	p. 145
From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	p. 157
From "Science as a Vocation"	p. 169
From Course in General Linguistics	p. 177
"The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism"	p. 185
"Lecture on Ethics"	p. 191
From Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus	p. 198
From Towards a New Architecture	p. 200
From Civilization and its Discontents	p. 212
"The Crowd Phenomenon"	p. 219
From The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology	p. 226
From Dialectic of Enlightenment	p. 243
From "Existentialism"	p. 259
"Letter on Humanism"	p. 274
"The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions"	p. 309
From Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture	p. 325
"The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing"	p. 336
"Nietzsche, Genealogy, History"	p. 360
From "Truth and Power"	p. 379
"POSTmodernISM: A Paracritical Bibliography"	p. 382
From Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia	p. 401
From The Coming of Post-Industrial Society	p. 423
From Symbolic Exchange and Death	p. 437
"The Sex Which is Not One"	p. 461
"The Death of Modern Architecture"	p. 469
From What Is Post-Modernism?	p. 471
From The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge	p. 481
From Erring: A Postmodern A/theology	p. 514
"The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition"	p. 534
From "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"	p. 556
"Solidarity or Objectivity?"	p. 573
"An Alternative Way out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative versus Subject-Centered Reason"	p. 589
From "From Feminist Empiricism to Feminist Standpoint Epistemologies"	p. 617
"The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought"	p. 638
From The Reenchantment of Science	p. 665
"Towards a Postmodern Pedagogy"	p. 687
From "Modern China and the Postmodern West"	p. 698
Select Bibliography	p. 711
Index	p. 719
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