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Introduction: Discontents -- Modern and Postmodern. 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: Foucaulta 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.
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