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Anderson, Perry. The Origins of Postmodernism. London: Verso Books, 1998. (143 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Anderson, Walt. Reality Isn’t What It Used to Be. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Appignanesi, Lisa, ed. Postmodernism: Institute of Contemporary Arts Documents. London: Free Association Books, 1989. (230 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Appignanesi, Richard and Christ Garratt. Introducing Postmodernism.2d ed. New York, NY: Totem Books, 2001. (176 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Bagnall, R.G. Discovering Radical Contingency: Building a Postmodern Agenda in Adult Education. New York, NY: P. Lang, 1999. (242 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Bauman, Zygmunt. Intimations of Postmodernity London, UK: Routledge, 1992.  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor, Mi.: University of Michigan Press, 1999.  (Posted 6/26/02)

Benson, Bruce Ellis. Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrids & Marion on Modern Idolatry. Downers Grove: Intervarsity, 2002. (240 pages)  (Posted 6/26/02)

Berger, Peter L. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 1967. (229 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

________. and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1966.  (Posted 6/26/02)

Berry, Philippa, and Andrew Wernick, eds. Shadow and Spirit: Postmodernism and Religion. London: Routledge, 1993.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner. Postmodern Theory. New York: Guilford Press, 1991. (258 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Brown, S. Postmodern Marketing. London: Routledge, 1995.  (Posted 6/26/02)

Bruce, Jerome E. Proclaiming the Scandal: Reflections on Post-Modern Ministry. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2000. (136)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Burger, Peter. The Decline of Modernism (Literature and Philosophy Series). trans. Nicholas Walker. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. (189 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Cahoone, Lawrence E. From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1995. (768 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Cantor, Norman F. Twentieth Century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction. n.p.  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Caputo, John D., ed. Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida. New York: Fordham University Press, 1997.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

________. The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.  (Posted 6/26/02)

Carrell, Brian. Moving Between Times. Modernity and Postmodernity: a Christian View. New Zealand: DeepSight, 1998.  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Cherryholmes, Cleo. Reading Pragmatism. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 1999. (148 pages) (Posted 11/1/2001)

Ciapaio, Roman T., ed. Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy. Mishawaka, India: American Maritain Association, 1997.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Connor, Steven. Postmodernist Culture. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Coupland, Douglas and Judith Regan, eds. Life After God. New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1997. (368 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Dear, Michael J. The Postmodern Urban Condition. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. (250 pages)  (Posted 6/26/02)

Dockery, David S., ed. The Challenge of Postmodernism: An Evangelical Engagement. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997 (406 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Doty, William G., ed. Picturing Cultural Values in Postmodern America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Eagleton, Terry. The Illusions of Postmodernism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Eberle, Gary. Geography of Nowhere: Finding Oneself in the Postmodern World. London: Sheed & Ward, 1994.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Ellis, John M. Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. (272 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

________. Against Deconstruction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. (184 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Erickson, Millard J. The Postmodern World: Discerning the Times and the Spirit of Our Age. Crossway Books, 2002. (144 pages)  (Posted 6/26/02)

________. Postmodernizing the Faith: Evangelical Responses to the Challenge of Postmodernism. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

________. Truth or Consequences: The Promise and Perils of Postmodernism. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2001. (335 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Farber, Daniel A., and Suzanna Sherry. Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. (192 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Farley, Edward. Deep Symbols: Their Postmodern Effacement and Reclamation. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1996.  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Fenn, Richard K. The Endangered Self. Princeton: Princeton Theological Seminary, 1992.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Fish, Stanley. Is There A Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.  (Posted 6/26/02)

Fisher, Michael. Does Deconstruction Make Any Difference? Poststructuralism and the Defense of Poetry in Modern Criticism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.  (Posted 6/26/02)

Flanagan, Keiran, and Peter C. Jupp, eds. Postmodernity, Sociology, and Religion. New York: Palgrave, 1997.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977. Westminster: Pantheon Books, 1981. (270 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Foster, Hal, ed. The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Port Townsend, Wash.: Bay Press, 1983.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Fowler, James W. Faithful Change: The Personal and Public Challenges of Postmodern Life. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. (246 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Garvin, Harry R., ed. Romanticism, Modernism, Post-Modernism. Toronto: Bushnell University Press, 1980.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Gay, Craig M. The Way of the (Modern) World: Or, Why It’s Tempting to Live as if God Doesn’t Exist. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998. (340 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Geffre, Claude, and Jean P. Jossua, eds. The Debate on Modernity. London: SCM Press, 1992.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Gibbins, John R. The Politics of Postmodernity: An Introduction to Contemporary Politics and Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 1999. (204 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Grenz, Stanley J. A Primer on Postmodernism. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1996. (211 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Griffin, David Ray, ed. Spirituality and Society: Postmodern Visions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Grodin, Debra, and Thomas R. Lindolf, eds. Inquiries in Social Construction. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1996. (230 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Gross, Paul R., and Norman Levitt. High Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. (326 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

________ et al, eds. The Flight from Science and Reason. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Habermas, Jurgen. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Trans. Frederick Lawrence. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987.  (Posted 6/26/02)

Harris, Marvin. Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1999. (224 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1990.  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Heelas, Paul, David Martin, and Paul Morris, eds. Religion, Modernity, and Postmodernity. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Hiebert, Paul G. Missiological Implications of Epistemological Shifts: Affirming Truth in a Modern/Postmodern World. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1999. (112 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Holzman, Lois, and John Morss, eds. Postmodern Psychologies, Societal Practice, and Political Life. London: Routledge, 2000. (216 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Theories of Representation and Difference). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986. (244 pages) (Posted 11/1/2001)

Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Post-Contemporary Interventions. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

______ and Perry Anderson. The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern 1983-1998. London: Verso Books, 1998. (206 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Kegan, Robert. In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. (396 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Koertge, Noretta. A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. (400 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Lakeland, Paul. Postmodernity: Christian Identity in a Fragmented Age. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997. (128 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Lawson, Hilary, and Lisa Appignanesu. Dismantling Truth: Reality in the Post-Modern World. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

________. Reflexivity: The Post-Modern Predicament. London: Hutchinson and Co., Ltd., 1984.  (Posted 6/26/02)

Lyon, David. Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times. Oxford: Polity Press, 2000. (224 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

________. Postmodernity, 2d ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. (131 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Lyotard. Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Vol. 10, Theory and History of Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985. (110 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

MacIntyre, Alasdair. Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy and Tradition. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.  (Posted 6/26/02)

McGuigan, Jim. Modernity and Postmodern Culture. Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press, 1999. (177 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Megill, Alan, Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1985.  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Murphy, Nancey. Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspective on Science, Religion, and Ethics. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997. (240 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Murphy, Richard. Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. (325 pages) (Posted 11/1/2001)

Nagel, Thomas, The View from Nowhere. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Nicholson, Linda J. The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. (179 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Norris, Christopher. Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. (384 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

________. The Truth about Postmodernism. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers,1993. (340 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

________. What's Wrong with Postmodernism: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,1991. (287 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Oden, Thomas C. Two Worlds: Notes on the Death of Modernity in America and Russia. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1992.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Olson, Carl. Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy: Two Paths of Liberation from the Representational Mode of Thinking. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. (288 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Poe, Harry L. Christian Witness in a Postmodern World. Nashville: Abingdon, 2001.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Polkinghorne, John. The Quantum World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. (Posted 11/1/2001)

Potter, Gary and Jose Lopez, eds. After Postmodernism: An Introduction to Critical Realism. Athlone Press, 2001.  (Posted 6/26/02)

Powell, James N. Postmodernism for Beginners. New York: Writers and Readers, 1998. (176 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Risatti, Howard. Postmodern Perspectives: Issues in Contemporary Art. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1990.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Rorty, Richard. Objectivity, Relativism and Truth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Rose, Margaret A. The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial: A Critical Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Rosenau, Pauline. Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. (248 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Shermer, Michael and Stephen Jay Gould. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. MJF Books, 2000.  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Silverman, Maxim. Facing Postmodernity: Contemporary French Thought on Culture and Society. London, UK: Routledge, 1999. (198 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Sim, Stuart, ed. The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999. (401 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Simons, Herbert, and Michael Billig, eds. After Postmodernism: Reconstructing Ideology Critique. Inquiries in Social Construction. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1994. (258 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Smith, Anthony. Books to Bytes: Knowledge and Information in the Postmodern Era. London: British Film Institute, 1994.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Smith, Chuck, Jr. The End of the World As We Know It: Clear Direction for Bold and Innovative Ministry in a Postmodern World. Waterbrook, 2001. (272 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Smith, Gregory Bruce. Nietzsche, Heidegger and the Transition to Postmodernity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. (366 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Smith, Huston. Beyond the Postmodern Mind. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1989. (281 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Soja, Edward W. Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. (320 pages)  (Posted 6/26/02)

________. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. London: Verso Books, 1997. (300 pages)  (Posted 6/26/02)

Sokal, Alan D. and Jean Bricmont. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse of Science. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998. (272 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Spretnak, Charlene. The Resurgence of the Real. London, UK: Routledge, 1999. (288 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Stove, David. Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism. Paddington NSW, AU: Macleay Press, 1998. (218 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

________. The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1991. (224 pages) (Posted 11/1/2001)

Sweet, Leonard I. SoulTsunami. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999. (443 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Torfing, Jackob. New Theories of Discourse: Laclau, Mouffe, and Zizek. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. (342 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

Veith, Gene Edward, Jr. Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1994. (256 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Venturi, Robert. Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Ward, Glenn. Teach Yourself Postmodernism. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997.  (Posted 6/26/02)

Watson, Jean, Barbara Montgomery-Dossey, and Larry Dossey. Postmodern Nursing and Beyond. London: Churchill Livingstone, 1999. (303 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Ward, Glenn. Postmodernism (Teach Yourself). Blacklick, Ohio: McGraw Hill, 1998. (192 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Waugh, Patricia. Postmodernism: A Reader. N.p: Edward Arnold, 1992.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

________. Practising Postmodernism: Reading Modernism (Working with Theory). Edward Arnold, 1992. (176 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

West, Charles C. Power, Truth, and Community in Modern Culture. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1999. (160 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Westphal, Merold, ed. Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought. [Papers from a conference held at Calvin College, Spring 1997] Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Wheeler, Samuel C. III. Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000.  (Posted 6/26/02)

Willmott, Glenn. McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse (Theory/Culture). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. (Posted 11/1/2001)

Wilson, Jonathan R. Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre’s After Virtue. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1998. (96 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000. (298 pages)  (Posted 10/19/2001)

Ziarek, Ewa Ponowska. The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism. Albany, NY: State University of New Press, 1995. (247 pages)  (Posted 11/1/2001)

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