Against Postmodernism A Marxist Critique

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THE JARGON OF POSTMODERNITY The Enlightenment and All That The Evisceration of Modernism The Search for Precursors The Abolition of Difference MODERNISM AND CAPITALISM 2. 1 The Vertigo of the Modern The Modernist Conjuncture The Rise and Fall of the Avant-Garde THE APORIAS OF POSTSTRUCTURALISM 3 . 1 THE LIMITS OF COMMUNICATIVE REASON In Defence of the Enlightenment From Weber to Habermas The Spectre of Kant: Language, Society and Reality The Spectre of Marx: Economy, Polity and Conflict SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW? The Myths of Postindustrialism The Spectre of Hegel: Jameson on Postmodernism A Break in Capitalism? The Mirror of Commodity Fetishism: Baudrillard and Late Capitalist Culture The Commodification of Modernism The Children of Marx and Coca Cola