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Pathfinder :  Postmodernism

Postmodernism [is] "originally an architectural design movement rooted in the reaction to the extreme functionalism of the Bauhaus school. Since the 1970's, the term has come into much wider use to designate a range of artistic styles, philosophical and critical positions, and sociological descriptions of contemporary society that postulate a break with either modernism as an aesthetic movement, or more broadly, modernity as a historically distinct era of human society and experience." Source: Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Oxford : Oxford University Press. H41 D4 2002.

"Postmodernism is an abstract, theoretical term and should be distinguished from postmodernity, which describes a sociological or cultural climate. The term postmodernism was coined in the late 1940's by British historian Arnold Toynbee, but used in the mid-1970's by the American art critic and theorist Charles Jencks to describe contemporary antimodernist movements like Pop Art, Concept Art, and Postminimalism. Jean-Francois Lyotard, in his book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979), was one of the first thinkers to write extensively about postmodernism as a wider cultural phenomenon. He viewed it as coming both before and after modernism, the reverse side of it. As such, postmodern moments have subsequently been discerned in thinkers as various as the eighteenth-century Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, and the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche." Source: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion. New York : Macmillan Reference USA. BL 240.3 E54 2003 v.2

Books dealing with the topic are listed in the catalog under the headings:

• Postmodernism
• Postmodernism - - Congresses
• Postmodernism - - Europe
• Postmodernism - - History
• Postmodernism - - United States
• Postmodernism and education
• Postmodernism and education - - Great Britain - - Congresses
• Postmodernism and education - - United States - - Congresses
• Postmodernism and higher education - - Great Britain

The following subject headings may be helpful in locating related books:

• Arts, Modern - - 20th century
• Literature - - 20th century - - history and criticism
• Modernism (Art)
• Philosophy, modern - - 20th century
• Popular culture

Basic reference located at the Information-Reference, 2nd floor:

• Dictionary of the social sciences. H 41 D4 2002
• Encyclopedia of postmodernism. B 831.2 E54 2001
• Encyclopedia of science and religion. BL 240.3 E54 2003
• Encyclopedia of sociology. HM 17 E5 1992
• Social science encyclopedia. H 41 S63 1999

Texts located at the American Studies Resource Center, Ground floor:

• All talk : the talkshow in media culture. Wayne Munson. PN 1990.9 T34 M86 1993
• Art since 1940 : strategies of being. Jonathan Fineberg. N 6512.5 M63 F56 1995
• The decline of discourse : reading, writing, and resistance in postmodern capitalism. Ben Agger. PN 151 A34 1990
• Postmodern American poetry : a Norton anthology. Paul Hoover. PS 615 P67 1994.
• The stories of Raymond Carver : a critical study. Kirk Nesset. PS 3553 A7894 Z78 1995.

Texts located at the Circulation, 3rd floor:

• A poetics of postmodernism : history, theory, fiction. Linda Hutcheon. PN 3503 H87 1988.
• Action research and postmodernism : congruence and critique. Tony Brown and Liz Jones. LB1028.24 B76 2001.
• After the great divide : modernism, mass culture, postmodernism. Andreas Huyssen. NX 456 H89 1986.
• After theory. Thomas Docherty. PN 98 P67 D6 1996.
• Against theory : continental and analytic challenges in moral philosophy. Dwight Furrow. BJ 324 P67 F87 1995.
• The challenge of periodization : old paradigms and new perspectives. PR 25 C38 1996.
• Chronoschisms : time, narrative, and postmodernism. Ursula K. Heise. PN 56 T5 H44 1997.
• The consequences of modernity. Anthony Giddens. HM131 . G56 1990.
• Cultural studies and communications. HM 101 C839 1996.
• The culture of citizenship : inventing postmodern civic culture. Thomas Bridges. JC 585 B75 1997.
• Curriculum development in the postmodern era. Patrick Slattery. LB 2806.15 S5 1995.
• Curriculum in conflict : social visions, educational agendas, and progressive school reform. Landon E. Beyer, Daniel P. Liston. LB 1570 B49 1996.
• Eco-impacts and the greening of postmodernity : news maps for communication studies, cultural studies, and sociology. Tom Jagtenberg, David McKie. HM 24 J34 1997.
• Economies of signs and space. Scott Lash and John Urry. HM 35 L37 1994.
• Educational research undone : the postmodern embrace. Ian Stronach and Maggie MacLure. LB1028 S754 1997.
• The ennobling of democracy : the challenge of the postmodern era. Thomas L. Pangle. JC 423 P36 1992.
• Essays in postfoundationalist theology. J. Wentzel van Huyssteen. BT 40 V35 1997.
• Faith in a society of instant gratification. BX 880 C6 1999 v.4.
• Faithful change : the personal and public challenges of postmodern life. James W. Fowler. BV4637 F67 1996.
• Feminism and the classroom teacher : research, praxis, pedagogy. Amanda Coffey and Sara Delamont. LC 197 C64 2000.
• For a radical higher education : after postmodernism. Richard Taylor, Jean Barr, and Tom Steele. LC 191.8 G7 T39 2002.
• The fragile absolute or, Why is the Christian legacy worth fighting for? Slavoj Zizek. BT 1102 Z59 2000.
• From modernism to postmodernism : an anthology. B 831.2 F76 1996.
• From Puritanism to postmodernism : a history of American literature. Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury. PS 88 R85 1992.
• God, the gift, and postmodernism. BR 100 G6 1999a.
• Postmodern semiotics : material culture and the forms postmodern life. M. Gottdiener. GN 406 G67 1995.
• Heterology and the postmodern : Bataille, Baudrillard, and Lyotard. Julian Pefanis. B 831.2 P46 1991.
• The idea of culture. Terry Eagleton. HM621 . E16 2000.
• The idea of the postmodern : a history. Hans Bertens. B 831.2 B47 1995.
• Ideology and cultural identity : modernity and the third world presence. Jorge Larrain. B 823.3 L39 1994.
• In defense of history : Marxism and the postmodern agenda. D 16.9 I54 1997.
• In search of politics. Zygmunt Bauman. JA 71 B38 1999.
• Intimations of postmodernity. Zygmunt Bauman. HM 73 B38 1992.
• Introducing children's literature : from Romanticism to postmodernism. Deborah Cogan Thacker and Jean Webb. PS 374 C454 T5 2002.
• Introducing Lyotard : art and politics. Bill Readings. B 2430 L964 R4 1991.
• Jung and the postmodern : the interpretation of realities. Christopher Hauke. BF175.4 C84 H38 2000.
• Knowledge, power, and learning. LC 196 K58 2001.
• Literary theory and the claims of history : postmodernism, objectivity, multicultural politics. Satya P. Mohanty. PN 94 M655 1997.
• Modern culture and critical theory : art, politics, and the legacy of the Frankfurt School. Russell A. Berman. HM 101 B47 1989.
• Modern skeletons in postmodern closets : a cultural studies alternative. James J. Sosnoski. PN 6071 F17 S67 1995.
• Modern/postmodern : a study in twentieth-century arts and ideas. Silvio Gaggi. NX 456.5 P66 G34 1991.
• Modernity and its discontents. B 831.2 M6 1992.
• Modernity and postmodern culture. Jim McGuigan. HM 449 M34 2006.
• Objectivity, relativism, and truth. Richard Rorty. B 945 R523 O23 1991.
• Observations on modernity. Niklas Luhmann. HM 24 L8413 1998.
• Orientalism, postmodernism and globalism. Bryan S. Turner. HM 73 T87 1994.
• Picture theory : essays on verbal and visual representation. W. J. T. Mitchell. NX 170 M58 1995.
• Politics, governance, and technology : a postmodern narrative on the virtual state. P. H. A. Frissen JA 80 F7613 1999.
• The politics of historical vision : Marx, Foucault, Habermas. Steven Best. JA 74 B47 1995.
• The possessed individual : technology and postmodernity. Arthur Kroker. HM 221 K74 1992.
• Postmodern after-images : a reader in film, television, and video. PN 1995 P67 1997.
• Postmodern American poetry. Jerome Mazzaro. PS 323.5 M39 1980.
• The postmodern bible. the bible and culture collective. BS 476 P67 1995.
• The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge. Jean-Francois Lyotard. BD 162 L913 1984.
• Postmodern fables. Jean-Francois Lyotard. B 2430 L963 M6713 1997.
• The postmodern God : a theological reader. BD573 . P67 1997.
• The postmodern history reader. D 13 P67 1997.
• Postmodern interpretations of the bible : a reader. BS 476 P68 2001.
• Postmodern literary theory : an anthology. PN 98 P67 P66 2000.
• Postmodern management and organization theory. HD29 . P67 1996.
• Postmodern marketing. Stephen Brown. HF 5415 B766 1995 v.2.
• Postmodern philosophy and Christian thought. Merold Westphal. BR 115 P74 P67 1999
• Postmodern semiotics : material culture and the forms postmodern life. M. Gottdiener. GN 406 G67 1995
• Postmodern sexualities. William Simon. HQ 23 S55 1996.
• Postmodern theory : critical interrogations. Steven Best and Douglas Kellner. PN 98 P67 B47 1991.
• The postmodern university? : contested visions of higher education in society. LC 191.8 G7 P67 1997.
• Postmodernism : a reader. B 831.2 P67 1993
• Postmodernism and continental philosophy. B 790 P67 1988.
• Postmodernism and the new enlightenment. Hugo A. Meynell. B 831.2 M48 1999.
• Post-modernism and the social sciences : insights, inroads, and intrusions. Pauline Marie Rosenau. HM 73 V34 1992.
• Postmodernism for beginners. Jim Powell. B 831.2 P68 1998.
• Postmodernism in the cinema. PN 1995.9 S6 P67 1998.
• Postmodernism, reason and religion. Ernest Gellner. BL 65 P73 G45 1992.
• Postmodernity and its discontents. Zygmunt Bauman. HM 73 B384 1997.
• Postmodernity, ethics, and the novel : from Leavis to Levinas. Andrew Gibson. PR 888 P69 G54 1999.
• Postphenomenology : essays in the postmodern context. Don Ihde. B 804 I34 1993.
• Pragmatism, postmodernism, and the future of philosophy. John J. Stuhr. B944. P72 S78 2003.
• Public policy and local governance : institutions in postmodern society. Peter Bogason. JS 141 B64 2000.
• Realizing the university in an age of supercomplexity. Ronald Barnett. LB 2322.2 B47 2000.
• Reflective teaching in the postmodern world : a manifesto for education in postmodernity. Stuart Parker. LB 14.7 P37 1997.
• Romanticism and postmodernism. PR 605 R64 R66 1999.
• Science education as/for sociopolitical action. Q 181 S3 2002.
• Shadow of spirit : postmodernism and religion. B 831.2 S5 1992.
• Stuart Hall : critical dialogues in cultural studies. HM 101 S79 1996.
• The rhetoric of failure : deconstruction of skepticism, reinvention of modernism. Ewa Plonowska Ziarek. B 809.6 Z524 1996.
• Theatre, theory, postmodernism. Johannes Birringer. PN 2039 B57 1993.
• Theories of play and postmodern fiction. Brian Edwards. PN 56 P53 E38 1998.
• Toward a new common sense : law, science, and politics in the paradigmatic transition. Boaventura de Sousa Santos. K 487 S3 S26 1995.
• Transformations in personhood and culture after theory : the languages of history, aesthetics, and ethics. B 831.2 T7 1994.
• Undoing culture : globalization, postmodernism and identity. Mike Featherstone. HM 101 F4 1995.
• What happens to history : the renewal of ethics in contemporary thought. D 16.9 W4 2001.
• Work, postmodernism and organization : a critical introduction. Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler. HD 4904 H36 2001.
• World postmodern fiction : a guide. Christopher Nash. PN 3503 N37 1993.

Text located at the European Documentation Centre, Ground floor:

• The Balkanization of the West : the confluence of postmodernism and postcommunism. Stjepan G. Mestrovic. HM 73 M47 1994.

Texts located at the Special Collection, Archives, 4th floor:

• I.R. Cruz Collection

• Essays in postmodern culture. PN 98 P67 E87 1993.
• Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism. Fredric Jameson. PN 98 P67 J35 1992.
• Recodings : art, spectacle, cultural politics. Hal Foster. NX 456.5 P66 F67 1985.

• Roberto C. Salazar Collection

• The postmodern turn : new perspectives on social theory. Steven Seidman. HM 24 P67 1994.

AUDIO VISUAL MATERIALS
(Instructional Media Services, Ground floor)

• Art of the Western World From Ancient Greece To Post-Modernism.  CD05230
• Sining Biswal : a Video Documentary on The Spanish Influence on Philippine Visual Art  V001994

FACULTY PUBLICATION
(Archives, 4th floor)

• Postmodernism and the concept of fragmentation. Leoncini, Dante Luis. Sophia 24 : 63+ 1994-95.

JOURNALS

PRINT
(Periodicals, 2nd floor)

• Ad Veritatem
• Diwa : Studies in Philosophy and Theology
• Karunungan : a journal of philosophy
• Social Science Diliman
• Sophia
• Unitas

ELECTRONIC

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org

• Annals of the Association of American Geographers
• History and Theory
• Nineteenth-Century Literature
• Past and Present
• Sociological Theory
• The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
• The Journal of Higher Education

Oxford University Press
http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls

Cambridge University Press
http://www.journals.cambridge.org

Proquest Online
http://www.umi.com/pqdauto

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

LOCAL
(Archives, 4th floor)

• A symptomatic reading of the postmodern in Alamat Comics. Catalina F. Purugganan (1998) [TG 02812]

FOREIGN

Proquest Digital Dissertations
( http://www.umi.com/pqdauto )

INTERNET SOURCES

Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~mryder/itc/postmodern.html
[Retrieved November 26, 2010]
Includes resources, links, readings and information on influential people of contemporary philosophy.

An Introduction to Postmodernism (and Why It's Not a Bad Word)
http://www.youthspecialties.com/articles/topics/postmodernism/pomo_intro.php
[Retrieved November 26, 2010]
An article about postmodernism. It provides information for those who are truly interested in ministering the youth who is highly influenced by postmodern attitudes. The good news is, postmodernism can be a very positive thing for your students and their faith.

Mark/Space Postmodern Library
http://www.euro.net/mark-space/Postmodern.html
[Retrieved November 26, 2010]
Index of postmodern authors, essays, magazines, and additional links.

"The Postmodern," "Postmodernism," "Postmodernity": Approaches to Po-Mo
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/technoculture/pomo.html
[Retrieved November 26, 2010]
Features article about postmodern vs. postmodernism vs. postmodernity. Includes discussion on ways of working with the idea of the "postmodern"; postmodernity and the crisis of the referent; working with Frederic Jameson's categories ("Postmodernism and Consumer Society"); etc.

Postmodernism and Its Critics
http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/pomo.htm
[Retrieved November 26, 2010]
Includes basic premises, key works, criticisms, leading figures, and methodologies.

Postmodernism :A New Model of Reality
http://www.mckenziestudycenter.org/philosophy/articles/postmod.html
[Retrieved November 26, 2010]
Describes some primary features underlying postmodernism and gives examples of postmodernism's effects.

Postmodernism: What One Needs to Know
http://postmoderndays.blogspot.com/2005/04/postmodernism-what-one-needs-to-know.html
[Retrieved November 26, 2010]
Provides an introduction to postmodernism and deconstruction as they relate to the special challenges of scholarship and teaching in the science and religion multidiscipline.

Xenos Christian Fellowship: Postmodernism and You
http://www.xenos.org/ministries/crossroads/pmandyou.htm
[Retrieved November 26, 2010]
Presents articles on nine areas to learn how postmodernism is affecting you and your children. These include Education; Health Care; Science; Psychotherapy; Religion, History; Literature; Biblical Interpretation; and Law and Government.

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Date: August 2004 / November 2010