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Summary
This book brings together diverse aspects of postmodernism by philosophers, literary critics, historians of architecture, and sociologists. It addresses the nature of postmodernism in painting, architecture, and the performing arts, and explores the social and political implications of postmodern theories of culture.
The book raises the question of whether postmodernism is to be seen as one more epoch or period within a succession of eras, or as a challenge to the modernist practice of periodization itself.
The nature of the subject and of subjectivity is explored in order to resituate and contextualize the autonomous subject of the modern literary traditions.
Postmodern approaches to philosophy, both analytical and continental (including the work of Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Rorty, and Cavell) are scrutinized and compared with a view to the question of foundationalism and with respect to philosophy's historical reflection on its own exclusionary practices.
After the Future discusses the ramifications of technology and programs for the renewal of community in a radically pluralistic society. It also discusses the question of language and the diverse ways of distinguishing the articulate from the inarticulate.
Gary Shapiro is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Gary Shapiro
I. Postperiodization
1. History, Theory, (Post)Modernity Anthony J. Cascardi
2. Photographs: Primitive and Postmodern Mary Bittner Wiseman
II. Subjects and Stories
3. Subjectivity as Critique and the Critique of Subjectivity in Keats's Hyperion Carol L. Bernstein
4. Eliot, Pound, and the Subject of Postmodernism Antony Easthope
5. Ideology, Representation, Schizophrenia: Toward a Theory of the Postmodern Subject John Johnston
III. Postmodern Philosophies
6. The Becoming-Postmodern of Philosophy Alan D. Schrift
7. "Ethics and Aesthetics are One": Postmodernism's Ethics of Taste Richard Shusterman
8. Aftermaths of the Modern: The Exclusions of Philosophy in Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida, and Stanley Cavell Timothy Gould
IV. Paintings and Performances
9. Painting in the End: Fates of Appropriation Stephen Melville
10. Anselm Kiefer: Postmodern Art and the Question of Technology John C. Gilmour
11. Vito Acconci and the Politics of the Body in Postmodern Performance Philip Auslander
V. Architecture: Construction/Deconstruction
12. Place, Form, and Identity in Postmodern Architecture and Philosophy: Derrida avec Moore, Mies avec Kant Edward Casey
13. Building it Postmodern in LA? Frank Gehry and Company Roger Bell
14. The Deceit of Postmodern Architecture Diane Ghirardo
VI. The Politics of Postmodernism
15. Power, Discourse, and Technology: The Presence of the Future Stephen David Ross
16. Does it Pay to Go Postmodern If Your Neighbors DoNot? Steve Fuller
17. Religion and Postmodernism: The Durkheimian Bond in Bell and Jameson John O'Neill
VII. Questions of Language
18. Heidegger and the Problem of Philosophical Language Gerald L. Bruns
19. The Naming of the Virgule in the Linguistic/Extralinguistic Binary Virgil Lokke
