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Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction
‘the most intellectually incisive, coherent and comprehensive
meditation upon the history and significance of postmodernism that I
have yet encountered.’
Patricia Waugh, University of Durham
‘easily the best introduction to postmodernism currently available.’
Hans Bertens, Utrecht University

Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting astimulating
and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have
been published in 25 languages worldwide.
The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics
in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next
few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short
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Very Short Introductions available now:
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Julia Annas
THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE
John Blair
ANIMAL RIGHTS
David DeGrazia
ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn
ARCHITECTURE
Andrew Ballantyne
ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes
Augustine Henry Chadwick
BARTHES Jonathan Culler
THE BIBLE John Riches
Buddha Michael Carrithers
BUDDHISM DamienKeown
CHOICE THEORY
Michael Allingham
CLASSICS Mary Beard and
John Henderson
CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard
Continental Philosophy
Simon Critchley
COSMOLOGY Peter Coles
CRYPTOGRAPHY
Fred Piper and Sean Murphy
Darwin Jonathan Howard
Democracy Bernard Crick
DESCARTES Tom Sorell
DRUGS Leslie Iversen
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
BRITAIN Paul Langford

EMPIRE Stephen Howe
The European Union
JohnPinder
FASCISM Kevin Passmore
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
William Doyle
Freud Anthony Storr
Galileo Stillman Drake
Gandhi Bhikhu Parekh
HEGEL Peter Singer
HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood
HINDUISM Kim Knott
HISTORY John H. Arnold
HOBBES Richard Tuck
HUME A. J. Ayer
Indian Philosophy
Sue Hamilton
Intelligence Ian J. Deary
ISLAM Malise Ruthven
JUDAISM Norman Solomon
Jung Anthony Stevens
KANT RogerScruton
KIERKEGAARD
Patrick Gardiner
THE KORAN Michael Cook
LITERARY THEORY
Jonathan Culler
LOGIC Graham Priest
MACHIAVELLI
Quentin Skinner
MARX Peter Singer

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MEDIEVAL BRITAIN
John Gillingham and
Ralph A. Griffiths
MUSIC Nicholas Cook
NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and
H. C. G. Matthew
paul E. P. SandersPhilosophy Edward Craig
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Samir Okasha
POLITICS Kenneth Minogue
POSTMODERNISM
Christopher Butler
POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Catherine Belsey
Psychology Gillian Butler and
Freda McManus
QUANTUM THEORY
John Polkinghorne
ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway

ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler
RUSSELL A. C. Grayling
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Catriona Kelly
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
S. A. Smith
SCHOPENHAUERChristopher Janaway
SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
John Monaghan and Peter Just
SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce
Socrates C. C. W. Taylor
SPINOZA Roger Scruton
STUART BRITAIN John Morrill
TERRORISM Charles Townshend
THEOLOGY David F. Ford
THE TUDORS John Guy
TWENTIETH-CENTURY
BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan
Wittgenstein A. C. Grayling
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AFRICAN HISTORY
John Parker and Richard Rathbone
ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw
ART HISTORY Dana Arnold
ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland
ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin
Atheism Julian Baggini
THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea
BRITISH POLITICS
Anthony Wright
BUDDHIST ETHICS
Damien Keown
CAPITALISM James Fulcher
THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe
CHAOS Leonard Smith
CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson
CHRISTIANITYLinda Woodhead

CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy
CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
Robert Tavernor
CLONING Arlene Judith Klotzko
THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon
CONTEMPORARY ART
Julian Stallabrass
THE CRUSADES
Christopher Tyerman
DADA AND SURREALISM
David Hopkins
Derrida Simon Glendinning
DESIGN John Heskett
Dinosaurs David Norman
DREAMING J. Allan Hobson
THE EARTH Martin Redfern
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