Histories of postmodernism / edited by Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, and Sara Rushing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Histories of Postmodernism / Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis and Sara Rushing -- 2. Honesty as the Best Policy: Nietzsche on Redlichkeit and the Contrast between Stoic and Epicurean Strategies of the Self / Melissa Lane -- 3. Escape from the Subject: Heidegger's Das Man and Being-in-the-World / Jill Hargis -- 4. A Rock and a Hard Place: Althusser, Structuralism, Communism and the Death of the Anticapitalist Left / Robert Resch -- 5. Hammer without a Master: French Phenomenology and the Origins of Deconstruction (Or, How Derrida Read Heidegger) / Peter Eli Gordon -- 6. "A Kind of Radicality": The Avant-Garde Legacy in Postmodern Ethics / Mark Bevir -- 7. Derrida's Engagement with Political Philosophy / Paul Patton -- 8. From the "Death of Man" to Human Rights: The Paradigm Change in French Intellectual Life / Richard Wolin -- 9. "The Democratic Literature of the Future": Richard Rorty, Postmodernism, and the American Poetic Tradition / Simon Stow -- 10. The Secular and the Post-Secular in the Thought of Edward Said / David Hawkes -- 11. Longing for a "Certain Kind of Future": Drucilla Cornell, Sexual Difference, and the Imaginary Domain / Sara Rushing.