The Post-Modern Reader

2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-74866-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: AD Reader

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 contextualized got 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jencks, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Charles Jencks 8
Post-Modernism – The Ism that Returns

Part 1 Defining the Post-Modern 12

Charles Jencks 14
What Then Is Post-Modernism?

Jean-François Lyotard 38
Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?

Andreas Huyssen 54
Mapping the Postmodern

Margaret A Rose 65
Defining the Post-Modern

Part 2 Literature and Architecture 82

John Barth 84
The Literature of Replenishment

Umberto Eco 95
The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable

Linda Hutcheon 98
Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics

Ihab Hassan 114
From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global Context

Felipe Fernández-Armesto 125
Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-Modernism

Jane Jacobs 138
The Kind of Problem a City Is

Robert Venturi 151
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Charles Jencks 162
The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity Paradigm

Paolo Portoghesi 178
What Is the Postmodern?

Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science 186

Zygmunt Bauman 188
Is There a Postmodern Sociology?

David Harvey 199
The Condition of Postmodernity

Robin Murray 220
Fordism and Post-Fordism

Anatole Kaletsky 232
9/15 – The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics?

Susan Rubin Suleiman 243
Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics

Craig Owens 260
The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism

Tito Arecchi 279
Chaos and Complexity

John Gray 284
Evangelical Atheism, Secular Christianity

David Ray Griffin 292
The Reenchantment of Science

David Bohm 314
Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World

Charles Birch 324
The Postmodern Challenge to Biology

Edward Goldsmith 332
Gaia and Evolution

Index 344

Über Autor(innen)

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 popularized 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.