A groundbreaking collective work which announces a radical new departure from contemporary debates on modernism and post-modernism. Acknowledgements, Cosmopolitan Narratives, Why Modernism Matters, Cosmopolitan Without Emancipation: A Response to Lyotard, Representation and the Transformation of Identity, Popular Culture and the Construction of Postmodern Identities, Scopic Regimes of Modernity, Spaces of Self and Society, A Modern Tour in Brazil, Postmodernism and the Aestheticization of Everyday Life, Modernity and the Voice of the Other, Marcisism and the Roots and Postmodernity: The Constitution of Selfhood in the Global Crisis, Index.