Post-Everything

Herman Paul is Professor of the History of the Humanities at Leiden UniversityAdriaan van Veldhuizen is a scientific researcher for the Dutch government

• Introduction: post-concepts in historical perspective – Herman PaulPart I: The emergence of a prefix (1930s–60s)1 ‘Our post-Christian age’: historicist-inspired diagnoses of modernity, 1935–70 – Herman Paul2 The post-secular in post-war American religious history – K. Healan Gaston3 Defining the old, creating the new: post-ideology and the politics of periodisation – Adriaan van Veldhuizen4 The death and rebirth of ‘postcapitalist society’ – Howard BrickPart II: Post rising to prominence (1970s–90s)5 Post-Keynesian: a rare example of a post-concept in economics – Roger E. Backhouse6 Lost in the post: (post-)structuralism between France and the United States – Edward Baring7 The ‘post’ in literary postmodernism: a history – Hans Bertens8 From political reference to self-narration: ‘postcolonial’ as periodiser – Andrew Sartori9 The tradition of post-tradition – Stephen TurnerPart III: Contemporary post-constructions (2000s–present)10 Busting the ‘post’? Postfeminist genealogies in millennial culture – Stéphanie Genz11 Posthumanism and the ‘posterising impulse’ – Yolande Jansen, Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp and Leire UrricelquiEpilogue: lessons for future posts – Adriaan van VeldhuizenIndex