Postmodernity and its Discontents

Introduction: Discontents - Modern and Postmodern.

1. The Dream of Purity.

2. Making and Unmaking of Strangers.

3. The Strangers of the Consumer Era: from the Welfare State to Prison.

4. Morality Begins at Home: or the Rocky Road to Justice.

5. Parvenu and Pariah - the Heroes and Victims of Modernity.

6. Tourists and Vagabonds - the Heroes and Victims of Postmodernity.

7. Postmodern Art, or the Im...