Life After Postmodernism is a pioneering text on the question of value in the postmodern scene. After a long hiatus in which discussions of value have been eclipsed by the death of the subject in post-structuralist theory, this collection of essays suggests that we are on the threshold of a new value debate in contemporary politics, aesthetics, and society. Rejecting the denial of value by Derrida and other representative of New French thought, this collection takes Nietzsche as its point of departure for putting evaluation back on the intellectual agenda and for a new synthesis -- hyper-pragmatism -- of liberalism and Marxism.

"Life After Postmodernism is an important collection of texts which deserves careful study by those who wish to understand how questions about value are discussed in postmodern discourse." -Canadian Philosophical Review

Table of Contents

Introductory Notes for a Postmodern Value Agenda	John Fekete
Value Without Truth-Value	Barbara H. Smith
Art and the Sociological Ego: Value from a Psychoanalytic Perspective	Charles Levin
Vampire Value, Infinitive Art, and Literary Theory: A Topographic Meditation	John Fekete
Aesthetic Alienation: Heidegger, Adorno, and Truth at the End of Art	Jay M. Bernstein
Interpretation, Interminability, Evaluation: From Nietzsche toward a General Economy	Arkady Plotnitsky
Idiogenes Laertius contra Gadamer: Universal or Historical Hermeneutics?	György Márkus
Ceci Tuera Cela: Graffiti as Crime and Art	Susan Stewart
Panic Values: Bacon, Colville, Baudrillard and the Aesthetics of Deprivation	Arthur Kroker