The Post-Modern Reader, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-0-470-74866-4
Paperback
352 pages
December 2010
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Post-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. The Post-Modern
Reader 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.
For 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 imcorporating 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.
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A 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.
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The Reader includes key texts by John Barth, Umberto Eco, David Harvey, Jane Jacobs, Jean-François Lyotard and Robert Venturi.
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A book edited by the most influential figure behind the Post-Modern movement – Charles Jencks.
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A timely and informative publication for students that captures the renewed interest in Post-Modernism.