The Post-Modern Reader

Preface.
Charles Jencks: Post-Modernism - The Ism that Returns.

Part 1 Defining the Post-Modern.

Charles Jencks: What Then Is Post-Modernism?

Jean-François Lyotard: Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?

Andreas Huyssen: Mapping the Postmodern.

Margaret A Rose: Defining the Post-Modern.

Part 2 Literature and Architecture.

John Barth: The Literature of Replenishment.

Umberto Eco: The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable.

Linda Hutcheon: Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics.

Ihab Hassan: From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global Context.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-Modernism.

Jane Jacobs: The Kind of Problem a City Is.

Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.

Charles Jencks: The Language of Post-Modern and the Complexity Paradigm.

Paolo Portoghesi: What Is the Postmodern?

Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science.

Zygmunt Bauman: Is There a Postmodern Sociology?

David Harvey: The Condition of Postmodernity.

Robin Murray: Fordism and Post-Fordism.

Anatole Kaletsky: 9/15 - The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics?

Susan Rubin Seleiman: Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics.

Craig Owens: The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism.

Tito Arecchi: Chaos and Complexity.

John Gray: Evangelical Atheism, Secular Christianity.

David Ray Griffin: The Reenchantment of Science.

David Bohm: Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World.

Charles Birch: The Postmodern Challenge to Biology.

Edward Goldsmith: Gaia and Evolution.

Index.

CHARLES JENCKS is the author of the best-selling The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (Yale University Press, a seventh edition to be published this year), Architecture Today (Academy Editions, third edition, 1994), The Architecture of the Jumping Universe (Wiley-Academy, second edition, 1997) and other books on contemporary building and Post-Modern thought. His architecture, landscape design and furniture explore in different media the ideas developed in his writing.