2020/09/19 · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Contemporary Literature and Criticism #Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism #Political theory and Gramsci
paper · doi:10.4324/9780203724484
openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex publication_date 2020/09/19 · openalex updated_date 2026/04/04
Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: Histories of Postmodernism Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, and Sara Rushing Chapter 2: Honesty as the Best Policy: Nietzsche on Redlichkeit and the contrast between Stoic and Epicurean strategies of the self Melissa Lane Chapter 3: Escape from the Subject: Heidegger's Das Man and Being-in-the-world Jill Hargis Chapter 4: A Rock and a Hard Place: Althusser, Structuralism, Communism and the Death of the Anticapitalist Left Robert Resch Chapter 5: Hammer without a Master: French Phenomenology and the Origins of Deconstruction (Or, How Derrida Read Heidegger) Peter Eli Gordon Chapter 6: 'A Kind of Radicality': The Avant-garde Legacy in Postmodern Ethics Mark Bevir Chapter 7: Derrida's Engagement with Political Philosophy Paul Patton Chapter 8: From the 'Death of Man' to Human Rights: the Paradigm Change in French Intellectual Life Richard Wolin Chapter 9: 'The Democratic Literature of the Future': Richard Rorty, Postmodernism and the American Poetic Tradition Simon Stow Chapter 10: The Secular and the Post-Secular in the Thought of Edward Said David Hawkes Chapter 11: Longing For 'A Certain Kind of Future': Drucilla Cornell, Sexual Difference and the Imaginary Domain Sara Rushing Contributors Index