PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 WHAT IS POSTMODERNITY?; POSTMODERNISM, THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND GLOBALIZATION; CHANGING CLASS COMPOSITION AND CULTURAL CHANGE; THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BOURGEOISIE; CLASS CONFLICT AND CULTURAL POLITICS; THE EVOLUTION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS; THE NEW SERVICE SUB-CLASS; THE INTELLIGENTSIA; THE DECENTRING OF CULTURE; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF POSTMODERN CULTURE; 2 POSTMODERNISM AND POSTSTRUCTURALISM; VICO AND CARTESIAN PHILOSOPHY; VICO AND HEGEL; VICO AND MARX; VICO AND NIETZSCHE; VICO AND HEIDEGGER; THE POSTSTRUCTURALISTS; LANGUAGE: DERRIDA.