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The Top 8 Books About Post-Modernism
1. Writing and Difference 2. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism 3. An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida 4. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change 5. Dialogues 6.
- Writing and Difference
- Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
- An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida
- The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
- Dialogues
- Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault”
- Simulacra and Simulation
- The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
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