Postmodernism: The Key Figures

Postmodernity stands for the acceptance of difference and the celebration of heterogeneity within an overwhelmingly capitalist framework. It is characterized by an entrepreneurial capitalism and an intense preoccupation with self‐examination and irony. These sentiments come through the introduction of Bertens (University of Utrecht) and Natoli (Michigan State University) to this collection of 50 “key” postmodern figures. Postmodernism and postmodernity have become institutionalized in critical thinking and academic courses, encourage us to look back to Marx and Habermas and then return through Adorno and Foucault and Baudrillard to the present time. The present time is very much the concern of this...