Editor Walter Truett Anderson has gathered 30 essays in this book on this important phenomenon which has permeated all levels of society from academia to popular culture. Writers such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Kenneth Gergen, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., examine the roles of pluralism, irony, protean personality, multi-ethnic lifestyle, and cafeteria spirituality in postmodern thought. This "New Consciousness Reader" is divided into thematic sections on self-concept, moral and ethical discourse, art and culture, and globalization. Anderson and company shed light on postmodernism by de-mystifying it.