Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Modern Civilization and its Critics: 1. From Meditations on First Philosophy: Rene Descartes. 2. From Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 3. An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment: Immanuel Kant. 4. From Reflections on the Revolution in France: Edmund Burke. 5. From Sketch for an Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind: Marquis de Condoret. 6. Absolute Freedom and Terror: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. 7. Bourgeois and Proletarians: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. 8. The Madman: The Natural History of Morals From The Genealogy of Morals and The Will to Power: Friedrich Nietzsche. Part II: Modernity Realized: 9. The Painter of Modern Life: Charles Baudelaire. 10. How to Make Our Ideas Clear: Charles S. Peirce. 11. From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism From Science as a Vocation: Max Weber. 12. From Course in General Linguistics: Ferdinand de Saussure. 13. The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. 14. Lecture on Ethics From Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Ludwig Wittgenstein. 15. From Towards a New Architecture: Le Corbusier. 16. From Civilization and its Discontents: Sigmund Freud. 17. The Crowd Phenomenon: Jose Ortega y Gasset. 18. From The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: Edmund Husserl. 19. From Dialectic of Enlightenment: Max HorkHeimer and Theodor Adorno. 20. From Existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre. Part III: Postmodernism and the Revaluation of Modernity: 21. Letter on Humanism: Martin Heidegger. 22. The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions: Thomas Kuhn. 23. From Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: Robert Venturi. 24. The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing: Jacques Derrida. 25. Nietzsche, Genealogy, History From Truth and Power: Michel Foucault. 26. POSTmodernISM: A Paracritical Bibliography: Ihab Hassan. 27. From Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. 28. From The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: Daniel Bell. 29. From Symbolic Exchange and Death: Jean Baudrillard. 30. The Sex Which is Not One: Luce Irigaray. 31. The Death of Modern Architecture From What Is Post-Modernism? : Charles Jencks. 32. From The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge: Jean Francois Lyotard. 33. From Erring: A Postmodern A/theology: Mark C. Taylor. 34. The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition: Alasdair MacIntyre. 35. From The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Fredric Jameson. 36. Solidarity or Objectivity? : Richard Rorty. 37. An Alternative Way out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative versus Subject-Centred Reason: Jurgen Habermas. 38. From From Feminist Empiricism to Feminist Standpoint Epistemologies: Sandra Harding. 39. The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought: Susan Bordo. 40. From The Reenchantment of Science: David Ray Griffin. 41. Towards a Postmodern Pedagogy: Henry A. Giroux. 42. From Modern China and the Postmodern West: David Hall. SelectBibliography. Index.