Postmodern Theory Critical Interrogations,9780898624182

Postmodern Theory Critical Interrogations

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ISBN13: 9780898624182
ISBN10: 0898624185
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-11-15
Publisher(s): 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.

Author Biography

Steven Best, Ph.D., is a Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. He has published articles on Marx, postmodern theory, Baudrillard, Debord, Jameson, film, television, and cultural theory
Douglas Kellner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of Karl Korsch: Revolutionary Theory; Marxism and Modernity; Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond; Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film (with Michael Ryan); and Television and the Crisis of Democracy

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements viii
In Search of the Postmodern
1(33)
Archaeology of the Postmodern
5(11)
The French Scene: From Structuralist to Postmodern Theory
16(13)
The Poststructuralist Critique
20(5)
The Postmodern Turn
25(4)
Critical Theory and the Postmodern Challenge
29(5)
Foucault and the Critique of Modernity
34(42)
Postmodern Perspectives and the Critique of Modernity
36(12)
Archaeology and Discontinuity
40(5)
Nietzsche and Genealogy
45(3)
Power/Knowledge/Subjectivity: Foucault's Postmodern Analytics
48(6)
Domination and Resistance: Foucault's Political Fragments
54(14)
Post-Marxist/Postmodern Strategies: Politics of Genealogy
56(3)
Ethics and Technologies of the Self
59(9)
Foucauldian Perspectives: Some Critical Comments
68(8)
Deleuze and Guattari: Schizos, Nomads, Rhizomes
76(35)
Deleuze's Nietzsche
79(6)
Anti-Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Capitalism, and Normalization
85(12)
Desire, Modernity, and Schizoanalysis
86(7)
The Micropolitics of Desire
93(4)
A Thousand Plateaus for the Postmodern!
97(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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