Postmodernity and Its Discontents

1. The Dream of Purity.

2. Making and Unmaking of Strangers.

3. The Strangers of the Consumer Era: from the Welfare State to Prison.

4. Morality Begins at Home: or the Rocky Road to Justice.

5. Parvenu and Pariah - the Heroes and Victims of Modernity.

6. Tourists and Vagabonds - the Heroes and Victims of Postmodernity.

7. Postmodern Art, or the Impossibility of the Avant-garde.

8. On the Meaning of Art and the Art of Meaning.

9. Culture as Consumer Co-operative.

10. On the Postmodern Deployment of Sex: Foucault's History of Sexuality Revisited.

11. Immortality, Postmodern Version.

12. Postmodern Religion?.

13. On Communitarianism and Human Freedom, or How to Square the Circle.

Afterword: The Last word - and it Belongs to Freedom.

Notes.

Index.