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Identity Crises : A Social Critique Of Postmodernity
Though the term "postmodern" looms large on our cultural landscape, rarely do we find a systematic and impartial discussion of the circumstances of its ascendance. Identity Crises offers just such an accounting. In this book, Robert G. Dunn situates the intellectual currency of "the p...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Regrounding Theory: The Social Relations of Identity and Difference; 2 Modernity and Postmodernity: Transformations in Identity Formation; 3 On the Transition from Modernity to Postmodernity: Transformations in Culture; 4 Explaining the Destabilization of Identity: Postmodernization, Commodification, and the Leveling of Cultural Hierarchy; 5 Identity, Politics, and the Dual Logic of Postmodernity: Fragmentation and Pluralization; 6 Redeeming the Subject: Poststructuralism, Meadian Social Pragmatism, and the Turn to Intersubjectivity.