Post-Modern Reader

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.

• PrefaceCharles Jencks 8Post-Modernism – The Ism that ReturnsPart 1 Defining the Post-Modern 12Charles Jencks 14What Then Is Post-Modernism?Jean-François Lyotard 38Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?Andreas Huyssen 54Mapping the PostmodernMargaret A Rose 65Defining the Post-ModernPart 2 Literature and Architecture 82John Barth 84The Literature of ReplenishmentUmberto Eco 95The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the EnjoyableLinda Hutcheon 98Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a PoeticsIhab Hassan 114From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global ContextFelipe Fernández-Armesto 125Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-ModernismJane Jacobs 138The Kind of Problem a City IsRobert Venturi 151Complexity and Contradiction in ArchitectureCharles Jencks 162The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity ParadigmPaolo Portoghesi 178What Is the Postmodern?Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science 186Zygmunt Bauman 188Is There a Postmodern Sociology?David Harvey 199The Condition of PostmodernityRobin Murray 220Fordism and Post-FordismAnatole Kaletsky 2329/15 – The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics?Susan Rubin Suleiman 243Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of PoliticsCraig Owens 260The Discourse of Others: Feminists and PostmodernismTito Arecchi 279Chaos and ComplexityJohn Gray 284Evangelical Atheism, Secular ChristianityDavid Ray Griffin 292The Reenchantment of ScienceDavid Bohm 314Postmodern Science and a Postmodern WorldCharles Birch 324The Postmodern Challenge to BiologyEdward Goldsmith 332Gaia and EvolutionIndex 344