Modern/postmodern : society, philosophy, literature

Content: Preface
 Chapter 1 Modernity --
Modernism --
Postmodernity: Attempting a Definition
 1.1 Problems of Construction: Modernity and Postmodernity as Epochs, Ideologies, Styles and Problematics
 1.2 Key Concepts: Modernity, Modernism, Postmodernity, Postmodernism, Posthistoire and Postindustrial Society
 1.3 Modernity, Modernism and Postmodernity as Problematics
 Chapter 2 Modernity and Postmodernity in a Sociological Perspective
 2.1 Critiques of Modernity: Universalism, Particularization and Social Movements
 2.2 Feminist and Eco-Feminist Critiques
 2.3 A Conservative Postmodernity? 2.4 The Marxist Critique: For and Against Postmodernity2.5 Pluralism, Indifference and Ideology
 2.6 The Case of Baudrillard: Indifference without Ideology
 Chapter 3 Postmodern Philosophies as Critiques of Modernity
 3.1 Nietzsche's Heirs
 3.2 Postmodern Social Philosophy and the End of Metanarratives: From Foucault, Deleuze and Lyotard to Vattimo and Rorty
 3.3 Postmodern Epistemology I: Foucault, Deleuze, Vattimo and Rorty
 3.4 Epistemology II: Language, Concept, Particularity-From Deleuze and Derrida to Vattimo
 3.5 Epistemology III: Lyotard vs Habermas. 3.6 Ethics: From Lyotard and Bauman to Rorty3.7 Aesthetics: Heterotopy and the Sublime, Allegory and Aporia
 Chapter 4 Modernism and Postmodernism: Literary Criticism
 4.1 Construction Attempts
 4.2 The Problematics of Modernism and Postmodernism: Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Indifference
 4.3 Avant-garde, Popular Culture and Postmodern 'De-differentiation'
 4.4 Postmodernism as Poststructuralism: Iterability, Aporia and Intertextuality
 Chapter 5 From Modern to Postmodern Literature: Ambivalence, Indifference and Ideology
 5.1 Modernist Literature and Ambivalence: Between Nietzsche and Freud. 5.2 Linguistic Aspects of Ambivalence5.3 Critique of Truth, the System and the Subject: Critique of Modernity
 5.4 Modernism and Critical Theory: Epilogue I
 5.5 Postmodern Literature and Indifference: The Critique of Metaphysics
 5.6 Linguistic Aspects of Indifference
 5.7 Beyond Truth and the Subject: Pluralism, Particularism, Indifference and Ideology
 5.8 Postmodern Literature, Deconstruction and Pragmatism: Epilogue II
 Chapter 6 Dialogical Theory: Between the Universal and the Particular
 6.1 Theory between Ideology and Indifference-or: 'Engagement and Critical Distance' 6.2 Theoretical Dialogue: Language, Sociolect, Discourse6.3 Conclusion: The Particular and the Universal in Postmodernity
 Notes
 Bibliography
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