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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
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.