Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Modernity - Modernism - Postmodernity: Attempting a Definition -- 1.1 Problems of Construction: Modernity and Postmodernity as Epochs, Ideologies, Styles and Problematics -- 1.2 Key Concepts: Modernity, Modernism, Postmodernity, Postmodernism, Posthistoire and Postindustrial Society -- 1.3 Modernity, Modernism and Postmodernity as Problematics -- Chapter 2 Modernity and Postmodernity in a Sociological Perspective -- 2.1 Critiques of Modernity: Universalism, Particularization and Social Movements -- 2.2 Feminist and Eco-Feminist Critiques -- 2.3 A Conservative Postmodernity? -- 2.4 The Marxist Critique: For and Against Postmodernity -- 2.5 Pluralism, Indifference and Ideology -- 2.6 The Case of Baudrillard: Indifference without Ideology -- Chapter 3 Postmodern Philosophies as Critiques of Modernity -- 3.1 Nietzsche's Heirs -- 3.2 Postmodern Social Philosophy and the End of Metanarratives: From Foucault, Deleuze and Lyotard to Vattimo and Rorty -- 3.3 Postmodern Epistemology I: Foucault, Deleuze, Vattimo and Rorty -- 3.4 Epistemology II: Language, Concept, Particularity-From Deleuze and Derrida to Vattimo -- 3.5 Epistemology III: Lyotard vs Habermas -- 3.6 Ethics: From Lyotard and Bauman to Rorty -- 3.7 Aesthetics: Heterotopy and the Sublime, Allegory and Aporia -- Chapter 4 Modernism and Postmodernism: Literary Criticism -- 4.1 Construction Attempts -- 4.2 The Problematics of Modernism and Postmodernism: Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Indifference -- 4.3 Avant-garde, Popular Culture and Postmodern 'De-differentiation' -- 4.4 Postmodernism as Poststructuralism: Iterability, Aporia and Intertextuality -- Chapter 5 From Modern to Postmodern Literature: Ambivalence, Indifference and Ideology -- 5.1 Modernist Literature and Ambivalence: Between Nietzsche and Freud -- 5.2 Linguistic Aspects of Ambivalence.

5.3 Critique of Truth, the System and the Subject: Critique of Modernity -- 5.4 Modernism and Critical Theory: Epilogue I -- 5.5 Postmodern Literature and Indifference: The Critique of Metaphysics -- 5.6 Linguistic Aspects of Indifference -- 5.7 Beyond Truth and the Subject: Pluralism, Particularism, Indifference and Ideology -- 5.8 Postmodern Literature, Deconstruction and Pragmatism: Epilogue II -- Chapter 6 Dialogical Theory: Between the Universal and the Particular -- 6.1 Theory between Ideology and Indifference-or: 'Engagement and Critical Distance' -- 6.2 Theoretical Dialogue: Language, Sociolect, Discourse -- 6.3 Conclusion: The Particular and the Universal in Postmodernity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.