A comprehensive selection of articles, essays, and statements, by such leading figures in postmodernism as Lyotard, Habermas, Jameson, Eco and Rorty, that defines the end of modernism in philosophy, politics, the artistic and cultural avant-garde, architecture, urbanicity, feminism, and ecology.

Part One: Founding Propositions 1. Answering the Question: What is postmodernism?, by Jean-Francois Lyotard 2. Note on the Meaning of 'Post-', by Jean-Francois Lyotard 3. The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point, by Jurgen Habermas 4. Postmodernism, by or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson Part Two: Modernity Compete and Incomplete 5. Modernity - An Incomplete Project, by Jurgen Habermas 6. The Structure of Artistic Revolutions, by Gianni Vattimo 7. The Last Days of Liberalism, by David Cook 8. The Fall of the Legislator, by Zygmunt Bauman Part Three: Aesthetic and Cultural Practices 9. Toward a Concept of Postmodernism, by Ihab Hassan 10. Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers, by Sally Banes 11. The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism, by Douglas Crimp 12. Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A question of ends, by Paul Crowther 13. The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Simulacra, by Jean Baudrillard 14. The City of Robots, by Umberto Eco 15. Against Intellectual Complexity in Music, by Michael Nyman Part Four: Crisis in the Avant-Garde 16. The Search for Tradition: Avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s, by Andreas Huyssen 17. The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by the Avant-Garde, by Peter Burger 18. The Sublime and the Avant-Garde, by Jean-Francois Lyotard 19. The International Trans-Avant-Garde, by Achille Bonito Oliva Part Five: Architecture and Urbanicity 20. Toward a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance, by Kenneth Frampton 21. The Emergent Rules, by Charles Jencks 22. The Duck and the Decorated Shed, by Robert Venturi 23. Postmodern, by Paolo Portoghesi Part Six: Politics 24. Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism, by Richard Rorty 25. Politics and the Limits of Modernity, by Ernest Laclau 26. The Condition of Post-Marxist Man, by Andre Gorz 27. Toward a Principle of Evil, by Jean Baudrillard Part Seven: Feminism 28. Feminism, by Reading, Postmodernism, Meaghan Morris 29. Feminism and Postmodernism, by Sabina Lovibond 30. Social Criticsim without Philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism, by Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson 31. The Demise of Experience: Fiction as stranger than truth?, by Alice Jardine Part Eight: Periphery and Postmodernism 32. Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today, by Simon During 33. Postmodernism and Periphery, by Nelly Richard 34. Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A response to the 'postmodern' condition, by Rey Chow

A comprehensive selection of articles, essays, and statements, by such leading figures in postmodernism as Lyotard, Habermas, Jameson, Eco and Rorty, that defines the end of modernism in philosophy, politics, the artistic and cultural avant-garde, architecture, urbanicity, feminism, and ecology.