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Culture and identity : critical theories /

This incisive text provides a concise and reliable guide to the debate on modernity and postmodernity. In particular the work of Lyotard, Beck, Bauman, Baudrillard, Giddens, Jameson and Derrida is critically reviewed.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abbinnett, Ross
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2003.
Colección:Politics and culture (London, England)
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Postmodernity and postmodernism. Levinas and Bauman : the ethics of care
  • Beck and Giddens : risk and reflexive modernity
  • Baudrillard : media and simulation
  • Lyotard and Jameson : postmodernism and the aesthetic
  • Derrida : deconstruction and identity
  • Part 2. Media, culture and identity. Technology, ideology and the culture industry
  • Information, simulation and the 'silent majorities'
  • The postmodern and the sublime
  • Culture, politics, differance
  • Part 3. Postmodernism and the end of history. Derrida, Fukuyama and the 'new world order'
  • Science, technology and catastrophe
  • Capitalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism.