Histories of Postmodernism

Mark Bevir is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Logic of the History of Ideas (1999) and New Labour: A Critique (2005), and coauthor of Interpreting British Governance (2003) and Governance Stories (2006).Jill Hargis is an Assistant Professor at California State Polytechnic University Pomona where she teaches political theory and public law. Sara Rushing is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Linfield College.

• 1. Introduction: Histories of Postmodernism 2. Honesty as the Best Policy: Nietzsche on Redlichkeit and the Contrast between Stoic and Epicurean Strategies of the Self 3. Escape from the Subject: Heidegger’s Das Man and Being-in-the-World 4. A Rock and a Hard Place: Althusser, Structuralism, Communism and the Death of the Anticapitalist Left 5. Hammer without a Master: French Phenomenology and the Origins of Deconstruction (Or, How Derrida Read Heidegger) 6. ‘A Kind of Radicality’: The Avant-garde Legacy in Postmodern Ethics 7. Derrida’s Engagement with Political Philosophy 8. From the ‘Death of Man’ to Human Rights: The Paradigm Change in French Intellectual Life 9. ‘The Democratic Literature of the Future’: Richard Rorty, Postmodernism and the American Poetic Tradition 10. The Secular and the Post-Secular in the Thought of Edward Said 11. Longing For ‘A Certain Kind of Future’: Drucilla Cornell, Sexual Difference and the Imaginary Domain