Overview of Pre, Mod and Postmodern (Source: Boje paper at http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/kcc/hendrickx/informs98/index.html)

Table One: Contested Terrain of Modern and Postmodern Positions

POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY THEORIES - END OF INFORM

Baudrillard End of reality (hyperreal, simulacra)

Lyotard End of grand narrative (beyond narratives of unilinear progress; war on totality; universalism; essentialism)

Foucault End of humanism (genealogical method; gaze of surveillance)

Derrida End of logocentrism (post-structuralist deconstruction of duality)

Deleuze &

Guattari End of unified subject (rhizome; reterritorialization, fragmentation)

Debord End of spectacle (Public dog-tail-wagging)

Jameson End of modern capitalism (late global capitalism; decline of nation state; media culture; cyber punk)

Rorty End of philosophy (hall of mirrors shattered)

Nietzsche End of religion (history is regress; God is dead; will to power)

Fukuyama End of cold war history (Berlin wall and Soviet Union has collapsed)

Best End of sustainability (genetic engineering; cloning; nano-technologies; virtual reality spread; in-sensibility; species extinction; Neuromancer doomsday)

*McLuhan End of street or ecology war (guerrilla information war in propaganda media and cyberspace; mass media is a drug)

*Rifkin End of industrialism (New Biotech Century, a second genesis)

MODERN PHILOSOPHY THEORIES - INFORM ENLIGHTENMENT

Locke/Hume/Newton Enlightenment of mechanistic (all is dead matter)

Taylor Enlightenment of scientific management

Weber Enlightenment of bureaucracy/rationality over feudal/charismatic

Fayol Enlightenment of administrative rationality

Hegel Enlightenment of historical progress; unfolding coherence)

Von Bertallanffy Enlightenment of general systems theory

Marx Enlightenment of worker revolution (society evolves; labor process theory)

LATE MODERN PHILOSOPHY THEORIES - INFORM REFORM

Habermas Enlightenment of communicative competence (inner nature evolves; consensus through dialogue and truth claims)

Marcuse One-dimensional man focus on positive and ignores dark side; sees possibility to align espoused theory with action (Horkheimer and Ordono are more skeptical).

Toffler Enlightenment of knowledge worker revolution (technology is emancipatory; post-Fordism)

Bell Enlightenment of post-industrialism service economy

PREMODERN PHILISOPHY THEORIES -- PRE-INFORM

Illich End of reading (deschool society; medical nemesis; tools for conviviality; de-institutionalize)

Barry Re-enchantment of mechanistic with organic spirituality

Merchant Re-feminization of dead mechanistic worldview (death of nature)

Burrell Re-discover the peasant (1/th of world population is peasantariat)

Korten End of corporate rule (democratic governance and sustainability)

* Not officially postmodern, but concepts fit for me.