This revised and expanded second edition of Cahoone's classic anthology provides an unparalleled collection of the essential readings in modernism and postmodernism. Places contemporary debate in the context of the criticism of modernity since the seventeenth century. Chronologically and thematically arranged. Indispensable and multidisciplinary resource in philosophy, literature, cultural studies, social theory, and religious studies. About the Author: Lawrence E. Cahoone is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. He is author of The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture, and Anticulture (1989), Civil Society: The Conservative Meaning of Liberal Politics (Blackwell 2002), and The Ends of Philosophy: Foundationalism, Pragmatism, and Postmodernism (Blackwell 2002).