In Search of the Postmodern

• Introduction
• Archaeology of the Postmodern
• The French Scene: From Structuralist to Postmodern Theory
• The Poststructuralist Critique
• The Postmodern Turn
• Critical Social Theory and the Postmodern Challenge

Foucault and the Critique of Modernity

• Introduction
• Postmodern Perspectives and the Critique of Modernity
• Archaeology and Discontinuity
• Nietzsche and Genealogy
• Power/Knowledge/Subjectivity: Foucault's Postmodern Analytics
• Domination and Resistance: Foucault's Political Fragments
• Postmarxist/Postmodern Strategies: Politics of Genealogy
• Ethics and Technologies of the Self
• Foucauldian Perspectives: Some Critical Comments

Deleuze and Guattari: Schizos, Nomads, Rhizomes

• Introduction
• Deleuze's Nietzsche
• (Anti-Oedipus): Psychoanalysis, Capitalism, and Normalization
• Desire, Modernity, and Schizoanalysis
• The Micropolitics of Desire
• (A Thousand Plateaus) for the Postmodern!
• Critical Reservations: Bodies Without Politics

Baudrillard en Route to Postmodernity

• Introduction
• Exploring Modernity
• From Symbolic to Productivist Society
• Symbolic Exchange, Micropolitics, and Cultural Revolution
• From Modernity to Postmodernity
• The Holy Trinity: Simulations, Implosion, and Hyperreality
• Baudrillard vs. Foucault
• Postmodernity, Metaphysics, and Postpolitics
• Metaphysical Turn: Baudrillard in the 1980s
• The End of History
• Aporia and Blindspots

Lyotard and Postmodern Gaming

• Introduction
• Drifting Along with Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche: Early Writings
• Discourse/Figure
• Lyotard's Nietzschean Drift: Libidinal Economy and the Politics of Desire
• Paganism, Gaming, and the Postmodern Turn
• The Postmodern Condition
• Between Kant and the Postmodern:(The Differend)
• Postmodern Aporia
• Language Games, Consensus, and the Fetishism of Difference
• The Sociological and Political Deficit

Marxism, Feminism, and Political Postmodernism

• Introduction
• Jameson's Postmodern Marxism
• Postmodernism as the Cultural Logic of Capital
• Cognitive Mapping and Cultural Politics
• Laclau/Mouffe: Toward a Postmodern Politics
• Hegemony and the Marxist Tradition
• Socialism, Radical Democracy, and Discourse Struggle
• Beyond Marxism: The Limits of Discourse Theory
• Postmodern Feminism and the Politics of Identity and Difference

Critical Theory and Postmodern Theory

• Introduction
• Critical Theory and Modernity
• Adorno's Proto-Postmodern Theory
• Habermas and Modernity
• Modernity as Unfinished Project
• Habermas vs. Postmodern Theory
• Sibling Rivalries: The Habermas/Lyotard Debate

Toward the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory

• Introduction
• Toward a Multidimensional and Multiperspectival Critical Theory
• Postmodernity, Postindustrial Society, and the Dialectics of Continuity and Discontinuity
• Postmodern Politics: Subjectivity, Discourse, and Aestheticism
• Social Theory, Culture, and Politics: Conflicting Models