Charles Jencks is an architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer, whose books on the history and criticism of Modernism and Post-Modernism are widely regarded throughout the world. His 1977 book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, which has evolved over seven new editions, defined Post-Modernism as a cultural movement and popularized its use in relation to architecture. He is currently writing a new definitive book on the subject, The Story of Post-Modernism, for publication in the autumn of 2011 for Wiley. In recent years, Jencks has become a leading figure in landscape architecture. He continues to write and lecture internationally.

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• PrefaceCharles Jencks 8Post-Modernism – The Ism that ReturnsPart 1 Defining the Post-Modern 12Charles Jencks 14What Then Is Post-Modernism?Jean-François Lyotard 38Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?Andreas Huyssen 54Mapping the PostmodernMargaret A Rose 65Defining the Post-ModernPart 2 Literature and Architecture 82John Barth 84The Literature of ReplenishmentUmberto Eco 95The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the EnjoyableLinda Hutcheon 98Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a PoeticsIhab Hassan 114From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global ContextFelipe Fernández-Armesto 125Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-ModernismJane Jacobs 138The Kind of Problem a City IsRobert Venturi 151Complexity and Contradiction in ArchitectureCharles Jencks 162The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity ParadigmPaolo Portoghesi 178What Is the Postmodern?Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science 186Zygmunt Bauman 188Is There a Postmodern Sociology?David Harvey 199The Condition of PostmodernityRobin Murray 220Fordism and Post-FordismAnatole Kaletsky 2329/15 – The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics?Susan Rubin Suleiman 243Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of PoliticsCraig Owens 260The Discourse of Others: Feminists and PostmodernismTito Arecchi 279Chaos and ComplexityJohn Gray 284Evangelical Atheism, Secular ChristianityDavid Ray Griffin 292The Reenchantment of ScienceDavid Bohm 314Postmodern Science and a Postmodern WorldCharles Birch 324The Postmodern Challenge to BiologyEdward Goldsmith 332Gaia and EvolutionIndex 344

Charles Jencks is an architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer, whose books on the history and criticism of Modernism and Post-Modernism are widely regarded throughout the world. His 1977 book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, which has evolved over seven new editions, defined Post-Modernism as a cultural movement and popularized its use in relation to architecture. He is currently writing a new definitive book on the subject, The Story of Post-Modernism, for publication in the autumn of 2011 for Wiley. In recent years, Jencks has become a leading figure in landscape architecture. He continues to write and lecture internationally.

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• PrefaceCharles Jencks 8Post-Modernism – The Ism that ReturnsPart 1 Defining the Post-Modern 12Charles Jencks 14What Then Is Post-Modernism?Jean-François Lyotard 38Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?Andreas Huyssen 54Mapping the PostmodernMargaret A Rose 65Defining the Post-ModernPart 2 Literature and Architecture 82John Barth 84The Literature of ReplenishmentUmberto Eco 95The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the EnjoyableLinda Hutcheon 98Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a PoeticsIhab Hassan 114From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global ContextFelipe Fernández-Armesto 125Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-ModernismJane Jacobs 138The Kind of Problem a City IsRobert Venturi 151Complexity and Contradiction in ArchitectureCharles Jencks 162The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity ParadigmPaolo Portoghesi 178What Is the Postmodern?Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science 186Zygmunt Bauman 188Is There a Postmodern Sociology?David Harvey 199The Condition of PostmodernityRobin Murray 220Fordism and Post-FordismAnatole Kaletsky 2329/15 – The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics?Susan Rubin Suleiman 243Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of PoliticsCraig Owens 260The Discourse of Others: Feminists and PostmodernismTito Arecchi 279Chaos and ComplexityJohn Gray 284Evangelical Atheism, Secular ChristianityDavid Ray Griffin 292The Reenchantment of ScienceDavid Bohm 314Postmodern Science and a Postmodern WorldCharles Birch 324The Postmodern Challenge to BiologyEdward Goldsmith 332Gaia and EvolutionIndex 344

Charles Jencks is an architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer, whose books on the history and criticism of Modernism and Post-Modernism are widely regarded throughout the world. His 1977 book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, which has evolved over seven new editions, defined Post-Modernism as a cultural movement and popularized its use in relation to architecture. He is currently writing a new definitive book on the subject, The Story of Post-Modernism, for publication in the autumn of 2011 for Wiley. In recent years, Jencks has become a leading figure in landscape architecture. He continues to write and lecture internationally.

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• PrefaceCharles Jencks 8Post-Modernism – The Ism that ReturnsPart 1 Defining the Post-Modern 12Charles Jencks 14What Then Is Post-Modernism?Jean-François Lyotard 38Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?Andreas Huyssen 54Mapping the PostmodernMargaret A Rose 65Defining the Post-ModernPart 2 Literature and Architecture 82John Barth 84The Literature of ReplenishmentUmberto Eco 95The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the EnjoyableLinda Hutcheon 98Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a PoeticsIhab Hassan 114From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global ContextFelipe Fernández-Armesto 125Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-ModernismJane Jacobs 138The Kind of Problem a City IsRobert Venturi 151Complexity and Contradiction in ArchitectureCharles Jencks 162The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity ParadigmPaolo Portoghesi 178What Is the Postmodern?Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science 186Zygmunt Bauman 188Is There a Postmodern Sociology?David Harvey 199The Condition of PostmodernityRobin Murray 220Fordism and Post-FordismAnatole Kaletsky 2329/15 – The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics?Susan Rubin Suleiman 243Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of PoliticsCraig Owens 260The Discourse of Others: Feminists and PostmodernismTito Arecchi 279Chaos and ComplexityJohn Gray 284Evangelical Atheism, Secular ChristianityDavid Ray Griffin 292The Reenchantment of ScienceDavid Bohm 314Postmodern Science and a Postmodern WorldCharles Birch 324The Postmodern Challenge to BiologyEdward Goldsmith 332Gaia and EvolutionIndex 344