On the future of history : the postmodernist challenge and its aftermath /
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Chicago :
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2003
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Table of Contents:
- A Prefatory and Introductory Note
- Part 1A Preliminary Exploration of the Postmodernist Challenge 1) A Look at Terms and Issues 2) An Adversarial Image of Modernity 3) The Postmodern Moment 4) At the Core of the Postmodernist Challenge to History 5) Two Versions of the Postmodernist Future. Postmodernity as the Ultimate Era of Stability Postmodernity as the Endless Stage of Total Flux 6) The Project of a Postmodernist Theory of History
- Part 2: Postmodernity as the Triumph of Continuity: Structural Postmodernism 7) Postmodernism's Emergence in an Unlikely Setting 8) An Early Redefinition of Progress's Destination 9)Views with Postmodernist Affinities 10) The First Twentieth-Century Postmodernist: Alexandre Koje?ve 11) The Flourishing of Structural Postmodernism (1945-65).The Setting An Ideological Path to Postmodernity: Hendrik de Man and Bertrand de Jouvenel An Anthropological Path to Postmodernity: Arnold Gehlen A Scientific-Technological Path to Postmodernity: Roderick Seidenberg 12) The Fading of Structural Postmodernism and a Triumphal Exception: Francis Fukuyama 13) Insights and Problems
- Part 3: Postmodernity as the Age of Dominant Change: Poststructuralist Postmodernism 14) A Prelude to Poststructuralist Postmodernism. Name, Motive, and Task Two Decisive Intellectual Turns: Linguistic and Philosophical The Context of Poststructuralist Postmodernism's Rise 15) Narrativist History in the Poststructuralist Mode. The Preparatory Role of Early Narrativism Roland Barthes's Challenge Narrativism, Poststructuralist Postmodernism, and the Historical Ways of Inquiry: White, Ankersmit, Kellner Motives, Visions, and Problems Coming to Terms with the New Narrativism: The Recent Scholarly Debate 16) In the Eye of the Storm: The Poststructuralist Postmodernist Concept of Truth. The Target of Rejection. Preparatory Developments for the Revision of Truth: Dilthey, Nietzsche, Heidegger. Foucault's Truth: Power Manifested in Language. Jacques Derrida: A Systematic Answer. A Moderately Linguistic Approach: Jean-François Lyotard. Reflections on the New Concept of Truth. The Debate on the Implications for Historical Thought and Practice 17) The Metanarrative Controversy. The Argument against the Historical Metanarrative: Lyotard, Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard. The Ongoing Debate about the Metanarrative. An Innovative Variant: The New Cultural History 18) Poststructuralist Postmodernists on the Individual and the Utility of History. Could History Still be Useful? The Deconstruction of the Individual as Historical Agent. Can Postmodernist Views of History Justify Action? Activism without the Guidance of the Past Responses to the Challenge
- Part 4: Poststructuralist Postmodernism and the Reshaping of Society. 19) What Kind of Marxism in Postmodernity? The Contestants and the Historical Situation. The Deconstruction of the Marxist View of History. A Marxist Variant with Postmodernist Themes: The Frankfurt School and Habermas 20) Postmodernism and Feminist History
- Part 5: Concluding Observations