Postmodernism and the re-reading of modernity / edited by Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen

Published:: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [1992]
New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press.
Copyright Date:: ©1992
Physical Description:: vi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Barker, Francis, 1952-, Hulme, Peter, 1948-, and Iversen, Margaret

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The Essex symposia, literature, politics, theory

Contents:

Introduction : Angelus novus -- Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, categoy / Peter Osborne -- Watching the detectives / Kristin Ross -- The long run of modernity, or, an essay on post-dating / Adrian Rifkin -- Suffering from reminiscences / Michael Newman -- Traducing history : Benjamin, language, politics / Kenneth Lea -- Science fiction and postmodernity / Jonathan Benison -- Down the road, or, history rehearsed / Elaine Jordan -- Spectators of postmodern art : from Minimalism to feminism / Margaret Iversen -- Rethinking the public sphere : a contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy / Nancy Fraser -- Is Enlightenment emancipatory? : a feminist reading of "What is Enlightenment" / Jane Flax -- Whistling in the dark : affirmation and despair in postmodernism / Jay Bernstein -- Writing in the lifeworld : deconstruction as a paradigm of transition to postmodernism / Peter Dews.

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ISBN:

071903745X

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-315) and index.

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