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9780415047852

Sociology of Postmodernism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415047852

  • ISBN10:

    0415047854

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1990-06-14
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Written by a noted scholar in the field, it considers the diffferences between modernism and postmodernism, describes the social and historical context which gave rise to both, and provides the clearest explanation of why postmodernism is important.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Postmodernism: Towards a Sociological Account
Postmodernism and Social Theory
Genealogy and the Body
Postmodernity and Desire
Communicative Rationality and Desire
Modernity or Modernism: Weber and Contemporary Social Theory
Postmodernist Culture
Critical Theory and Postmodernist Culture: The Eclipse of Aura
Discourse of Figure: Postmodernism as a Regime of Signification
Modernism and Post Modernism: Social Correlates
Modernism and Bourgeois Identity: Paris/Vienna/Berlin
Modernization and Postmodernisation in the work of Pierre Bourdieu
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