Learning Outcomes
Knowledge of seminal positions in the debate on cultural postmodernity
Comprehension of theoretical and political differences between positions
Illustration of general issues through specific analysis
Integration of diverse critical strands
Synopsis
1 Enlightenment and Modernity: Kant, Foucault
2 Modern and Postmodern: Huyssen, Herman
3 Postmodern Conditions, Postmodern Aesthetics: Lyotard
4 Simulacra and Simulations: Baudrillard
5 Postmodernism and Late Capitalism: Jameson
6 Modernity versus Postmodernity: Habermas
7 Critiquing Postmodernism: Eagleton
8 Feminist Postmodernism?: Kristeva
9 Structure, Play, Deconstruction: Derrida
10 The Postcolonial and the Postmodern I: Bhabha
11 The Postcolonial and the Postmodern II: Spivak
Texts
J. Natoli and L. Hutcheon (eds.), A Postmodern Reader (1993)
Patricia Waugh (ed.), Postmodernism: a Reader (1992)
Thomas Docherty (ed.), Postmodernism: a Reader (1993)
Peter Brooker (ed.), Modernism/Postmodernism (1992)
Hans Bertens, The Idea of the Postmodern: a History (1995)
Stephen Connor, Postmodernist Culture (1989)
Hal Foster (ed.), Postmodern Culture (1985)
