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Preface \ I. Defining Modernity and Postmodernity \ 1. Problems of Construction: Modernity and Postmodernity as Periods, Ideologies, Styles and Problematics \ 2. Key Concepts: Modernity, Modernism, Postmodernity, Post-histoire and Post-industrial Society \ 3. Modernity, Modernism and Postmodernity as Problematics \ II. Modernity and Postmodernity in a Sociological Perspective \ 1. Critiques of Modernity: Universalism, Particularization and Social Movements \ 2. Feminist and Ecofeminist Critiques \ 3. A Conservative Postmodernity? \ 4. Marxist Critiques: For and against 'Postmodernity' \ 5. Pluralism, Indifference and Ideology \ 6.. The Case of Baudrillard: Indifference without Ideology \ III. Postmodern Philosophies as Critiques of Modernity \ 1. Nietzsche' Heirs \ 2. Postmodern Social Philosophies and the End of Meta-Narratives: From Foucault, Deleuze and Lyotard to Vattimo and Rorty \ 3. Postmodern Epistemology I: Foucault, Deleuze, Vattimo and Rorty \ 4. Epistemology II: Language, Concept, Particularity - from Deleuze and Derrida to Vattimo \ 5. Epistemology III: Lyotard vs. Habermas \ 6. Ethics: From Lyotard and Bauman to Rorty \ 7. Aesthetics: Heterotopy and the Sublime, Allegory and Aporia \ IV. Modernism and Postmodernism: Literary Criticism \ 1. Construction Attempts \ 2. The Problematics of Modernism and Postmodernism: Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Indifference \ 3. Avant-garde, Popular Culture and postmodern 'De-differentiation' \ 4. Postmodernism as Poststructuralism : Iterability, Aporia and Intertextuality \ V. From Modern to Postmodern Literature: Ambivalence, Indifference and Ideology \ 1. Modernist Literature and Ambivalence: Between Nietzsche and Freud \ 2. Linguistic Aspects of Ambivalence \ 3. Critique of Truth, System and Subject: Critique of Modernity \ 4. Modernism and Critical Theory: Epilogue I \ 5. Postmodern Literature and Indifference: Critique of Metaphysics \ 6. Linguistic Aspects of Indifference \ 7. Beyond Truth and the Subject: Pluralism, Particularism, Indifference and Ideology \ 8. Postmodern Literature, Deconstruction and Pragmatism: Epilogue II \ VI. Dialogical Theory: Between the Universal and the Particular \ 1. Theory between Ideology and Indifference \ 2.The Theoretcial Dialogue: Language, Sociolect and Discourse \ 3. Conclusion: The Particular and the Universal in Postmodernity \ Bibliography \ Index.
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