Table of Contents

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 

About the Author

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.