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  1. Characteristics of the Contemporary World

  2. Toward a new global order, 1970-2001
    1. National issues and international realignment
      1. Economic trends and crises
      2. Domestic challenges and changes in the United States and Soviet Union
    2. The fall of Communism
    3. The post-cold war world

  3. The age of terror, 2001-

  4. The birth of Post-Modernism
    1. Medicine, Science, and Technology
      1. Medicine
          2. a)   Organ transplants
          b)   AIDS
          c)   Infectious diseases
      2. Science
      3. Technology
          4. a)   Communication satellites
          b)   Cell telephone
          c)   Greenhouse effect
    2. Philosophy and Religion
      1. Philosophy
          2. a)   Kuhn
          b)   Barthes
          c)   Derrida
      2. Religion and religious thought
          3. a)   Liberation theology
          b)   Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
          c)   Pope John Paul II
          d)   Islamic radicalism
    3. The literature of Post-Modernism
      1. Fiction
          2. a)   Marquez
          b)   Kundera
          c)   Walker
          d)   Morrison
          e)   Kingston
          f)   Smith
          g)   Pamuk
      2. Poetry
      3. Drama
    4. Post-Modernism and the arts
      1. Painting
          2. a)   Kiefer
          b)   Rothenberg
          c)   Coe
          d)   Botero
          e)   Blake
          f)   Stella
          g)   Gilliam
          h)   Richter
      2. Sculpture
          3. a)   De Andrea
          b)   Flavin
          c)   Lin
          d)   Christo and Jeann-Claude
      3. Installation art
      4. Environmental art
      5. Video art
      6. Architecture
          7. a)   Venturi
          b)   Pei
          c)   Johnson
          d)   Gehry
          e)   Koolhaas
          f)    Hadid
    5. Film
    6. Post-Modern music
    7. Performance art
    8. Mass culture

  5. Summing Up

  6. The Legacy of the Contemporary World






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