【图书简介】 After developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts， after being disputed and celebrated， Post-Modernism has become an integral part of the cultural landscape. In this witty overview， Charles Jencks， the first to write a book defining the subject， argues that the movement is one more reaction from within modernism critical of its shortcomings. The unintended consequences of modernisation， such as the terrorist debacle and global warming， are typical issues motivating a Critical Modern response today. In a unique analysis， using many explanatory diagrams and graphs， he reveals the evolutionary， social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. Critical Modernism emerges at two levels. As an underground movement， it is the fact that many modernisms compete， quarrel and criticise each other as they seek to become dominant. Secondly， when so many of these movements follow each other today in quick succession， they may reach a ‘critical mass，’ a Modernism2， and become a conscious tradition.-读书网|DuShu.com
【本书目录】 Preface - A refolution in five parts Chapter 1 ORIGINS AND BATTLES PM is Critical Modernism The Many Deaths of Modernism Two Views of Post-Modernism Post-modern Speaks Us Screams in the Cathedral Modernism as a Protestant Crusade Success Tames the Avant-garde Chapter 2 HYBRID CULTURE Double Coding and Irony Not Even Pastiche Complexity and the Enigmatic Signifier Post-modern Art - Cross-coding with Content Irony on the Verge of Cynicism Chapter 3 THE BLURRED SOCIETY The Rise of the Cognitariat The Triumph of the Muddle Class The Rise of Socitalism Cyclical, Linear and Crystalline Time Chapter 4 WANING NATIONS, RISING HETERARCHY Destructive Modernity The Transnational Heterarchy New World Order as Heterarchy Being Wise before the Event The Post-modern States One Cheer for the EU The Search for an Effective Heterarchy Chapter 5 COSMOGENESIS AND THE UNIVERSE PROJECT Belief in a Universe 137 Billion Years Big Complexity as a Measure of Quality Two Types of Evolution A Cultural Drive? The Universe Project A Jumping Universe Chapter 6 CRITICAL MODERNISM Creative to be Critical A Critical Iconography A Critical Coding A Critical Spirituality? Critical Theory Carves up Doomsday Fatigue Critical Modernism as a Continuous Dialectic The White Elephant Theory of Modernism The Ten-year Rule and Continuous Refolution Hidden Tradition or Process? Critical Modernism - a Conscious Movement? Notes & References Index
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