Modern/Postmodern

Peter V. Zima is Professor of General and Comparative Literature and Director of the Institute of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

"Peter V. Zima's Modern/Postmodern presents a valuable synthesis and overview of the debates surrounding the postmodern in the fields of philosophy, social theory, the arts, and history. Systematically making distinctions between the modern and the postmodern, Zima provides a comprehensive analysis of existing debates and his own original contributions in a book rich with insight." - Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, author of Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond and co-author with Steven Best of The Postmodern Adventure.

• 1. Defining Modernity and Postmodernity; 2. Modernity and Postmodernity in a Sociological Perspective; 3. Postmodern Philosophies as Critiques of Modernity; 4. Modernism and Postmodernism: The Critical Debates; 5. From Modernist to Postmodernist Literature: Ambivalence, Indifference and Ideology; 6. Dialogical Theory: Between Universalism and Particularism; Bibliography; Index.