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Postmodern Theory Critical Interrogations

by: Best, Steven; Kellner, Douglas

Postmodern Theory Critical Interrogations

by: Best, Steven; Kellner, Douglas

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9780898624182
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0898624185
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Copyright: 11/15/1991
Publisher: The Guilford Press

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Summary

In this timely volume, the authors systematically analyze postmodern t heory to evaluate its relevance for critical social theory and radical politics today. The authors claim that while postmodern theory provi des insights into contemporary developments, it lacks adequate methodo logical and political perspectives to provide a critical social theory and radical politics for the present age.

Preface and Acknowledgements

viii

In Search of the Postmodern

(33)

Archaeology of the Postmodern

(11)

The French Scene: From Structuralist to Postmodern Theory

(13)

The Poststructuralist Critique

(5)

The Postmodern Turn

(4)

Critical Theory and the Postmodern Challenge

(5)

Foucault and the Critique of Modernity

(42)

Postmodern Perspectives and the Critique of Modernity

(12)

Archaeology and Discontinuity

(5)

Nietzsche and Genealogy

(3)

Power/Knowledge/Subjectivity: Foucault's Postmodern Analytics

(6)

Domination and Resistance: Foucault's Political Fragments

(14)

Post-Marxist/Postmodern Strategies: Politics of Genealogy

(3)

Ethics and Technologies of the Self

(9)

Foucauldian Perspectives: Some Critical Comments

(8)

Deleuze and Guattari: Schizos, Nomads, Rhizomes

(35)

Deleuze's Nietzsche

(6)

Anti-Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Capitalism, and Normalization

(12)

Desire, Modernity, and Schizoanalysis

(7)

The Micropolitics of Desire

(4)

A Thousand Plateaus for the Postmodern!

(7)

Critical Reservations: Bodies Without Politics?

104

(7)

Baudrillard en route to Postmodernity

111

(35)

Exploring Modernity

112

(6)

From Symbolic to Productivist Societies

114

(1)

Symbolic Exchange, Micropolitics, and Cultural Revolution

115

(3)

From Modernity to Postmodernity

118

(8)

The Holy Trinity: Simulations, Implosion and Hyperreality

118

(4)

Baudrillard vs. Foucault

122

(4)

Postmodernity, Metaphysics, and Postpolitics

126

(20)

Metaphysical Turn: Baudrillard in the 1980s

128

(5)

The End of History

133

(4)

Aporia and Blindspots

137

(9)

Lyotard and Postmodern Gaming

146

(35)

Drifting with Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche: Early Writings

147

(16)

Discours, Figure

148

(4)

Lyotard's Nietzschean Drift: Libidinal Economy and the Politics of Desire

152

(8)

Paganism, Just Gaming, and the Postmodern Turn

160

(3)

The Postmodern Condition

163

(4)

Between Kant and the Postmodern: The Differend

167

(4)

Postmodern Aporia

171

(10)

Language Games, Consensus, and the Fetishism of Difference

175

(2)

Sociological and Political Deficits

177

(4)

Marxism, Feminism, and Political Postmodernism

181

(34)

Jameson's Postmodern Marxism

182

(10)

Postmodernism as the Cultural Logic of Capital

184

(4)

Cognitive Mapping and Cultural Politics

188

(4)

Laclau and Mouffe: Between the Modern and Postmodern

192

(13)

Hegemony and the Marxist Tradition

194

(2)

Socialism, Radical Democracy, and Discourse Struggle

196

(4)

Beyond Marxism?: The Limits of Discourse Theory

200

(5)

Postmodern Feminism and the Politics of Identity and Difference

205

(10)

Critical Theory and Postmodern Theory

215

(41)

Critical Theory and Modernity

217

(8)

Adorno's Proto-Postmodern Theory

225

(8)

Habermas and Modernity

233

(13)

Modernity as Unfinished Project

234

(6)

Habermas vs. Postmodern Theory

240

(6)

Sibling Rivalries: The Habermas--Lyotard Debate

246

(10)

Towards the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory

256

(49)

For a Multidimensional and Multiperspectival Critical Theory

263

(11)

Postmodernity, Postindustrial Society, and the Dialectics of Continuity and Discontinuity

274

(9)

Postmodern Politics: Subjectivity, Discourse, and Aestheticism

283

(11)

Theory, Culture, and Politics: Conflicting Models

294

(11)

Bibliography

305

(15)

Index

320

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Postmodern Theory Critical Interrogations

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