What is postmodern-postmodernism as philosophy-and what should we think of it? The first eight chapters of Julian Young's new book examine the thought of key postmodernist philosophers: Lyotard, Deleuze, Foucault, Baudrillard, Derrida, Vattimo, Richard Rorty and Judith Butler. In the final chapter, he turns to the question of what makes them all 'postmodernists.' His conclusion is that postmodernism is best thought of as the combination of two...