Untendentious and highly informative... " -- VirginiaQuarterly Review
..". extremely useful and intellectuallystimulating... " -- Seminar
Zeitgeist in Babel vividlydisplays the confluence of discourse-formations concerning postmodernism as theytake shape in the different disciplines of aesthetic mediums and philosophicaldiscourse. The twenty contributors include Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, ClementGreenberg, Martin Jay, Charles Jencks, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and RichardRorty.
Other contributors are Charles Boone, Matei Calinescu, C.Barry Chabot, Erika Fischer-Lichte, David Hayman, Jost Hermand, Ingeborg Hoesterey, Peter Koslowski, Rosalind E. Krauss, Donald B. Kuspit, Stefano Rosso, Maureen Turim, and Gianni Vattimo.