Encyclopedia of Postmodernism

Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134743087
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism Theory

The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of academic disciplines, critical terms and central figures relating to the vast field of postmodern studies. With three cross-referenced sections, the volume is easily accessible to readers with specialized research agendas and general interests in contemporary cultural, historical, literary and philosophical issues.
Since its inception in the 1960s, postmodernism has emerged as a significant cultural, political and intellectual force that many scholars would argue defines our era. Postmodernism, in its various configurations, has consistently challenged concepts of selfhood, knowledge formation, aesthetics, ethics, history and politics. This Encyclopedia offers a wide-range of perspectives on postmodernism that illustrates the plurality of this critical concept that is so much part of our current intellectual debates. In this regard, the volume does not adhere to a single definition of postmodernism as much as it documents the use of the term across a variety of academic and cultural pursuits.
The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, it must be noted, resists simply presenting postmodernism as a new style among many styles occuring in the post-disciplinary academy. Documenting the use of the term acknowledges that postmodernism has a much deeper and long-lasting effect on academic and cultural life. In general, the volume rests on the understanding that postmodernism is not so much a style as it is an on-going process, a process of both disintegration and reformation.

Index

Page numbers in bold indicate references to the main entry.

• absence 1–2, 265
  • alterity 9
  • Hegel 8
  • margin 237
  • post-functionalism 111
  • presence 114, 167
• abyss 384, 437, 438
• Acconci, Vito 397
• Acker, Kathy 123, 351
• acoluthetic reason 2
• ACT-UP 327
• Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund 2–4
  • art 20, 188–9
  • Aufklärung 23
  • Bauman 30
  • capitalism 97
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment 95–7, 127
  • fetish 121
  • Frankfurt School 2, 23, 95, 136
  • Holocaust 128, 193
  • and Horkheimer 182
  • identity 261–2
  • jazz 187–8
  • music 255, 257
  • negative dialectics 261
  • poetry 291–2, 293
• aesthetics
  • architecture 110
  • crash 207
  • Deleuze 86
  • diaspora 200
  • freedom 190
  • literature 60, 61–2
  • pagan 230, 235, 270–1
  • parergon 274
  • politics 260–1
  • theater arts 394
• African American Studies 4–5, 85–6
• Agamben, Giorgio 5–6, 58
• agency 6, 122, 339
• Ahmad, Aijaz 299
• allegory 6–8, 90, 209
• Allen, Woody 129
• allophobia 30
• Alpers, Svetlana 20
• altar...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Editorial team
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Z
• Index