Culture and Identity : Critical Theories.
Başlık:
Culture and Identity : Critical Theories.
Yazar:
Abbinnett, Ross.
ISBN:
9781446264737
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Seri:
Politics and Culture series
İçerik:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I - Postmodernity and Postmodernism -- Chapter 1 - Levinas and Bauman: The Ethics of Care -- Chapter 2 - Beck and Giddens: Risk and Reflexive Modernity -- Chapter 3 - Baudrillard: Media and Simulation -- Chapter 4 - Lyotard and Jameson: Postmodernism and the Aesthetic -- Chapter 5 - Derrida: Deconstruction and Identity -- Part II - Media, Culture and Identity -- Chapter 6 - Technology, Ideology and the Culture Industry -- Chapter 7 - Information, Simulation and the 'Silent Majorities' -- Chapter 8 - The Postmodern and the Sublime -- Chapter 9 - Culture, Politics, Différance -- Part III - Postmodernism and the End of History -- Chapter 10 - Derrida, Fukuyama and the 'New World Order' -- Chapter 11 - Science, Technology and Catastrophe -- Chapter 12 - Capitalism, Globalization and Cosmopolitanism -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet:
This incisive and timely book provides a concise and reliable guide to the debate on modernity and postmodernity. What emerges most forcefully from the book is the error of dismissing postmodernism as a self-indulgent and ultimately, dangerous piece of ideology.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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