This book discusses in richness and depth the problems that postmodern ideas and writings are currently going through. Writing and rewriting are central to the questions postmodern critique raises. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Studies.

Chapter 1 Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory: A Postmodern Paraphrase; Parody and Meta-Parody: Preposterous Postmodern Proposals; Vincent Crapanzano's Postmodern Crisis; Remarks on the Symbolic

R. S. Khare is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.