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Title

Against postmodernism : a marxist critique / Alex Callinicos.

Author

Callinicos, Alex

Publication

New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1990.

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Description

x, 207 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Postmodernism > Controversial literature
• Philosophy, Marxist

Genre/Form

Controversial literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-199) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The jargon of postmodernity. The Enlightenment and all that ; The evisceration of modernism ; The search for precursors ; The abolition of difference -- 2. Modernism and capitalism. The vertigo of the modern ; The modernist conjecture ; The rise and fall of the avant-garde -- 3. The aporias of poststructuralism. The owl of Minerva takes wing at dawn : Nietzsche ; Two kinds of poststructuralism ; Aporia 1: rationality ; Aporia 2: resistance ; Aporia 3: the subject -- 4. The limits of communicative reason. In defence of the Enlightenment ; From Weber to Habermas ; The spectre of Kant : language, society and reality ; The spectre of Marx : economy, polity and conflict -- 5. So what is new? The myths of postindustrialism ; The spectre of Hegel : Jameson on postmodernism ; A break in capitalism? ; The mirror of commodity fetishism : Baudrillard and late capitalist culture ; The commodification of modernism ; The children of Marx and Coca Cola.

ISBN

• 0312042248
• 0312042256 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^89070065^

OCLC

20721996

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library