Universal Abandon: The Politics of Postmodernism (Studies in Classical Philology)

319 Pages·1989·9.42 MB·English

by  Andrew Ross

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THE POLITICS
OF POSTMODERNISM
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OF POSTMODERNISM
CULTURAL .; POLITICS
A series from the Social Text collective
THE POLITICS
OF POSTMODERNISM
Andrew Ross, editor
(for the Social Text collective)
University of Minnesota Press/Minneapolis
Copyright ? 1988 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.
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Universal abandon? : the politics of postmodernism / edited by Andrew
Ross for Social Text
p. cm. -(Cultural politics)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8166-1679-5. ISBN 0-8166-1680-9 (pbk.)
1. Criticism. 2. Politics and literature. 3. Postmodernism.
4. Marxist criticism. I. Ross, Andrew, 1956- II. Social Text
(Organization). III. Series: Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgment vi
Introduction Andrew Ross vii
Regarding Postmodernism-A Conversation with
FredricJ ameson Anders Stephanson 3
Radical Democracy: Modern or Postmodern?
Chantal Mouffe 31
Postmodernism and Politics Stanley Aronowitz 46
Politics and the Limits of Modernity Eresto Laclau 63
Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between
Feminism and Postmodernism Nancy Fraser and
Linda Nicholson 83
Tooth and Claw: Tales of Survival and
Crocodile Dundee Meaghan Moms 105
Visiting the Banana Republic Paul Smith 128
Feminism: The Political Conscience of
Postmodernism? Laura Kipnis 149
Putting the Pop Back into Postmodernism
Lawrence Grossberg 167
Living with Contradictions:C ritical Practices in the
Age of Supply-Side Aesthetics Abigail Solomon-Godeau 191
Marginalitya nd the Ethics of Survival
George Ytidice 214
The Man Who Mistook His Wifef or a Hat or
A Wife Is Like an Umbrella Fantasies of the
Modern and Postmodern Jacqueline Rose 237
Wild Signs: The Breakup of the Sign in Seventies' Art
Hal Foster 251
Interview with Cornel West Anders Stephanson 269
Contributors 287
Index 291
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Research assistance was provided by Marjorie Howes, Allan Hep-
burn, and the Princeton UniversityR esearch Council for the Human-
ities.
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