{"product_id":"the-post-modern-reader-isbn-9780470748664","title":"The Post-Modern Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003ePost-Modernism has been debated, attacked and defended for over three decades. It is, however, not just a fashion or style but part of a greater movement in all areas of culture, and one which stubbornly persists like its parent, Modernism. \u003ci\u003eThe Post-Modern Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal anthology that presents this trend in all its diversity, as a convergence in architecture and literature, sociology and cultural theory, feminism and theology, science and economics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor this new edition, editor Charles Jencks has provided an entirely new definitive introductory essay 'What Then Is Post-Modernism?' that reflects on the movement's coming of age. The book also encompasses essential classic texts on the subject by John Barth, Umberto Eco, David Harvey, Jane Jacobs, Jean-François Lyotard and Robert Venturi, while incorporating new articles by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, John Gray, Ihab Hassan and Anatole Kaletsky. Each text is introduced and contextualized got the reader with a new short introductory passage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA new edition of a classic anthology of 26 texts covering the full gamut of Post-Modern thought from architecture and literature to economics and theology.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Reader includes key texts by John Barth, Umberto Eco, David Harvey, Jane Jacobs, Jean-François Lyotard and Robert Venturi.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA book edited by the most influential figure behind the Post-Modern movement – Charles Jencks.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA timely and informative publication for students that captures the renewed interest in Post-Modernism.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Jencks\u003c\/i\u003e 8\u003cbr\u003e Post-Modernism – The Ism that Returns\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Defining the Post-Modern 12\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Jencks\u003c\/i\u003e 14\u003cbr\u003e What Then Is Post-Modernism?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJean-François Lyotard\u003c\/i\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndreas Huyssen\u003c\/i\u003e 54\u003cbr\u003e Mapping the Postmodern\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret A Rose\u003c\/i\u003e 65\u003cbr\u003e Defining the Post-Modern\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 Literature and Architecture 82\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Barth\u003c\/i\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e The Literature of Replenishment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUmberto Eco\u003c\/i\u003e 95\u003cbr\u003e The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Hutcheon\u003c\/i\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIhab Hassan\u003c\/i\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local\/Global Context\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFelipe Fernández-Armesto\u003c\/i\u003e 125\u003cbr\u003e Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane Jacobs\u003c\/i\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e The Kind of Problem a City Is\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Venturi\u003c\/i\u003e 151\u003cbr\u003e Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Jencks\u003c\/i\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity Paradigm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaolo Portoghesi\u003c\/i\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e What Is the Postmodern?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science 186\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eZygmunt Bauman\u003c\/i\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e Is There a Postmodern Sociology?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Harvey\u003c\/i\u003e 199\u003cbr\u003e The Condition of Postmodernity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobin Murray\u003c\/i\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e Fordism and Post-Fordism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnatole Kaletsky\u003c\/i\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e 9\/15 – The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Rubin Suleiman\u003c\/i\u003e 243\u003cbr\u003e Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCraig Owens\u003c\/i\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTito Arecchi\u003c\/i\u003e 279\u003cbr\u003e Chaos and Complexity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Gray\u003c\/i\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e Evangelical Atheism, Secular Christianity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Ray Griffin\u003c\/i\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e The Reenchantment of Science\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Bohm\u003c\/i\u003e 314\u003cbr\u003e Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Birch\u003c\/i\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e The Postmodern Challenge to Biology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdward Goldsmith\u003c\/i\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e Gaia and Evolution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 344 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eCharles Jencks\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Post-Modern Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003ci\u003e, The Story of Post-Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990315876581,"sku":"NP9780470748664","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470748664.jpg?v=1761787324","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-post-modern-reader-isbn-9780470748664","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}