The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary -- The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE: The Phantom Project Returning: The Passing (On) of the Still Incomplete Project of Modernity -- Introduction -- Ruptures and Specters -- Exorcisms Without End -- The (Phantom) Project Still Incomplete -- CHAPTER TWO: Spectral Circumventions (of the Specter): Poststructuralism, Derrida, and the Project Renewed -- Poststructuralism and/as Postmodernism -- Private Irony All the Way Down? -- The Force of Derrida's Indecision -- CHAPTER THREE: Writing of the Ghost (Again): The Failure of Postmodern Metafi ction and the Narrative of Renewalism -- Neither Logocentric nor Logo Centric -- From an Ethics of Perversity to an Ethics of Indecision -- Metafiction's Failure and the Rise of Neo-Realism -- The Project of Renewalism -- A Conclusion . . . Perhaps -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.