From Modernism to Postmodernism is the most authoritative and comprehensive collection of the key classic and contemporary readings of postmodernity and modernity.Motivated by the assumption that students cannot appreciate postmodernism without first understanding the development of modernity, this anthology puts contemporary debate in the context of the criticism of modernity since the seventeenth century. Selected authors include: Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, Burke, Hegel, Marx, Peirce, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Huesserl, Wittgenstein, Adorno, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Irigaray, Rorty, and MacIntyre, amongst others.