Introduction : Discontents
The making and unmaking of strangers
The strangers of the consumer era : from the welfare state to prison
Morality begins at home : or, the rocky road to justice
Parvenu and Pariah : the heroes and victims of modernity
Tourists and vagabonds : the heroes and victims of postmodernity
Postmodern art, or the impossibility of the avant-garde
The meaning of art and the art of meaning
On truth, fiction and uncertainty
Culture as consumer co-operative
On the postmodern redeployment of sex : Foucault's History of sexuality revisited
Immortality, postmodern version
On communitarianism and human freedom, or how to square the circle
Afterword : The last word
and it belongs to freedom.
