It's been more than 30 years since Jean-François Lyotard closed the historical door on Modernism. It was 1979, to be exact, when Lyotard published The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.

Postmodernism means different things in different contexts. In philosophy the term refers to certain currents in French philosophy since the 1960s, including especially thinkers such as Jacques ...

A new book by Stuart Jeffries claims we never left behind this heady, late-20th-century period of cultural and political expression. Big Do-Nut Drive-in, Inglewood, Calif., 1976. (HUM Images / ...

Lacan and psychoanalysis -- Derrida and deconstruction -- Foucalt and the social sciences -- Some currents within post-structuralism -- Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva: French feminist theories -- Lyotard ...