The post modern reader Post Modernism has been debated attacked and defended for over three decades. It is however not just a fashion or style but part of a greater movement in all areas of culture and one which stubbornly persists like its parent Modernism. The Post Modern Reader is a seminal anthology that presents this trend in all its diversity as a convergence in architecture and literature sociology and cultural theory feminism and theology science and economics. For this new edition editor Charles Jencks has provided an entirely new definitive introductory essay What Then Is Post Modernism that reflects on the movements coming of age. The book also encompasses essential classic texts on the subject by John Barth Umberto Eco David Harvey Jane Jacobs Jean François Lyotard and Robert Venturi while incorporating new articles by Felipe Fernández Armesto John Gray Ihab Hassan and Anatole Kaletsky. Each text is introduced and contextualised for the reader with a new short introductory passage. P. [4] of cover