1. Introduction: Or, Crisis? What Crisis? -- 2. The Postmodern Condition: Theoretical Foundations -- 2.1. Genesis: A Historical Survey of Postmodernism -- 2.2. Essences and Differences: A Conceptual Survey of Postmodernism -- 3. The Border: Or, the Process of Individuation -- 3.1. From Universe -- 3.2. ... to Multiverse: Or, the Death of God -- 4. On the Border: Or, Identity as Duality -- 4.1. The Dual Nature of (Wo)man -- 4.2. Duality as Principle of Christian Morality -- 4.3. Duality as Sociological and Psychological Principle -- 4.4. Biological Duality: Man and Woman -- 4.5. Political and Ideological Duality: East and West -- 5. Beyond the Border: Or, Time and Identity -- 5.1. (Wo)man and Teleology -- 5.2. Fictive Pasts: History, Memory, and Identity -- 5.3. Imagined Futures: Writing Against the Concept of Teleology -- 5.4. Eternal Presents: History as Entropy -- 6. Beyond and Behind: Or, Postmodern Fiction as Critcism of Intertextuality -- 6.1. The World as a Text -- 6.2. Verum Factum, Verum Fictum: Ethical Dilemmas -- 6.3. Verum Fictum, Verum Factum: Meaningful Fictions -- 7. Conclusion: Or, the Ongoing State of Crisis -- Zusammenfassung -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.