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Postmodernism - an introduction. Part 1 Founding propositions:answering the question - what is postmodernism?, Lyotard; note on themeaning of "post", Lyotard; the entry into postmodernity, Habermas;from postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism, Jameson.Part 2 Modernity complete and incomplete: modernity - an incompleteproject, Habermas; the structure of artistic revolutions, Vattimo; thelast days of liberalism, Cook; the fall of the legislator, Bauman. Part3 Aesthetic and cultural practices: toward a concept of postmodernism,Hassan; from "introduction" to "Terpsichore in Sneakers", Banes; thephotographic activity of postmodernism, Crimp; postmodernism in thevisual arts, Crowther; from "The Evil Demon of Images" and from "ThePrecession of Simulacra", Baudrillard; the city of robots from "Travelsin Hyperreality", Eco; against intellectual complexity in music, Nyman.Part 4 Crisis in the avant-garde: the search for tradition, Huyssen;from "Theory of the Avant-Garde", Burger; the sublime and theavant-garde, Lyotard; the international trans-avantgarde, Oliva. Part 5Architecture and urbanicity: towards a critical regionalism, Frampton;the emergent rules from "Postmodernism", Jencks; the duck and thedecorated shed, Venturi; from "Postmodern", Portoghesi. Part 6Politics: postmodernist bourgeois liberalism, Rorty; politics and thelimits of modernity, Laclau; condition of post-Marxist man, Gorz;toward a principle of evil, Baudrillard. Part 7 Feminism: feminism,reading, postmodernism from "The Pirate's Fiancee", Morris; feminismand postmodernism, Lovibond; social criticism without philosophy,Fraser and Nicholson; the demise of experience, Jardine. Part 8Periphery and postmodernism: postmodernism, or post-colonialism today,during; postmodernism and periphery, Richard; rereading Mandarin ducksand butterflies, Chow.