Thomas Docherty is Professor of English at Warwick University. He has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the Renaissance to the present day. He specializes in the philosophy of literary criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures. Some of his previous publications include John Donne Undone (Methuen/Routledge, 1986), Postmodernism (Harvester/Columbia UP, 1993), Aesthetic Democracy (Stanford UP, 2006) and The English Question (Sussex Academic, 2008).
Postmodernism: An Introduction
1: Founding Propositions
1: Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?
2: Note on the Meaning of 'Post-'
3: The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point
4: Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
2: Modernity Complete and Incomplete
5: Modernity - An Incomplete Project
6: The Structure of Artistic Revolutions
7: The Last Days of Liberalism
8: The Fall of the Legislator
3: Aesthetic and Cultural Practices
9: Toward a Concept of Postmodernism
10: Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers
11: The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism
12: Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A question of ends
13: The Evil Demon of Images and The Precession of Simulacra
14: The City of Robots
15: Against Intellectual Complexity in Music
4: Crisis in the Avant-Garde
16: The Search for Tradition: Avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s
17: The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by the Avant-Garde
18: The Sublime and the Avant-Garde
19: The International Trans-Avant-Garde
5: Architecture and Urbanicity
20: Toward a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance
21: The Emergent Rules
22: The Duck and the Decorated Shed
23: Postmodern
6: Politics
24: Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism
25: Politics and the Limits of Modernity
26: The Condition of Post-Marxist Man
27: Toward a Principle of Evil
7: Feminism
28: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism
29: Feminism and Postmodernism
30: Social Criticism without Philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism
31: The Demise of Experience: Fiction as stranger than truth?
8: Periphery and Postmodernism
32: Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today
33: Postmodernism and Periphery
34: Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A response to the 'postmodern' condition
