Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism de Ross, Andrew (Edited by) - 1988

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1988. xviii, 300 pages; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. An anthology of articles published by the Social Text collective. Art historians Hal Foster and Abigail Solomon-Godeau are among the contibutors. CONTENTS: Introduction, by Andrew Ross; Regarding postmodernism: a conversation with Frederic Jameson, by Anders Stephanson; Radical democracy: modern or postmodern?, by Chantal Mouffe; Postmodernism and politics, by Stanley Aronowitz; Politics and the limits of modernity, by Ernesto Laclau; Social criticism without philosophy: an encounter between feminism and postmodernism, by Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson; Tooth and claw: tales of survival and Crocodile Dundee, by Meaghan Morris; Visiting the Banana republic, by Paul Smith; Feminism: the political conscience of postmodernism?, by Laura Kipnis; Putting the pop back into postmodernism, by Lawrence Grossberg; Living with contradictions: critical practices in the age of supply-side aesthetics, by Abigail Solomon-Godeau; Marginality and the ethics of survival, by George Yudice; The Man who mistook his wife for a hat or A Wife is like an umbrella: fantasies or the modern and postmodern, by Jacqueline Rose; Wild signs: the breakup of the sign in seventies' art, by Hal Foster; Interview with Cornel West, by Anders Stephanson.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.