Postmodernism. What Moment?

by Goulimari, Pelagia

• ISBN13: 9780719073083
• ISBN10: 0719073081
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field. The authors look back on their own contributions to the postmodernism debate of the 1980s and 1990s and address the ways in which the contemporary world and their own concerns have developed, and the continuing validity or otherwise of "postmodern" as a master designator of the contemporary

Author Biography

Pelagia Goulimari is a member of the English Faculty of Oxford University and General Editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Genealogies of the Postmodern
Gone forever, but here to stay: the legacy of the postmodern	p. 16
A bas postmodernism, of course	p. 19
On the postmodernism debate	p. 22
Postmodernity and (the end of) metaphysics	p. 32
Ereignisse of the postmodern: Heidegger, Lyotard, and Gerhard Richter	p. 39
Human rights in postmodernity	p. 50
Subjectivity, ethics, politics: learning to live without the subject	p. 74
Mapping the Postmodern
They might have been giants	p. 92
Reappraising the postmodern: novelties, mapping and historical narratives	p. 102
The postmodern: after the (non-)event	p. 127
The Postmodern and the Twenty-First Century
Postmodernism and Islam: where to after September 11?	p. 140
Goodbye to all that	p. 146
Suspicion of thought	p. 154
Affect and postmodernity in the struggle over "American modernity"	p. 176
Heterogeneity and post-modernity	p. 202
Postscript	p. 213
Index	p. 217
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