AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Postmodernism As Discursive Event/Ingeborg HoestereyInterventions/Jacques DerridaI. Revisiting Constitutive Discursive Practices. Architecture, Americanist Literary Criticism, and Anti-Greenbergian Art ScencePostmodern vs. Late-Modern/Charles JencksThe Problem of the Postmodern/C. Barry ChabotThe Notion of "Postmodern"/Clement GreenbergThe Unhappy Consciousness of Modernism/Donald B. KuspitThe Originality of the Avant-Garde: A Postmodernist Repetition/Rosalind E. KraussII. The Debate in Philosophy and More Politics of DiscourseHabermas and Lyotard on Postmodernity/Richard RortyHabermas and Postmodernism/Martin JayFeminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics/Susan Rubin SuleimanThe End of (Hi)story/Gianni VattimoThe (De-)Construction Sites of the Postmodern/Peter KoslowskiFrom the One to the Many: Pluralism in Today's Thought/Matei CalinescuIII. The Cultural Diversity of Modernism/Postmodernism DialecticsCinemas of Modernity and Postmodernity/Maureen TurimAvant-Garde, Modern, Postmodern: The Music (almost) Nobody Wants to Hear/Jost HermandHas Modernist Music Lost Power?/Charles BoonePostmoderism. Extension or End of Modernism? Theater between Cultural Crisis and Cultural Change/Erika Fischer-LichteNodality or Plot Displaced. The Dynamics of Soller's H/David HaymanA Correspondence on Postmodernism/Stefano Rosso/Umberto EcoBibliographical NoteContributorsIndex