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Title The politics of postmodernity / edited by James Good and Irving Velody
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description ix, 232 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction: postmodernity and the political / James Good and Irving Velody -- Pt. I. Modernity and its vicissitudes. 2. Parvenu and pariah: heroes and victims of modernity / Zygmunt Bauman. 3. Private and public in 'late-modern' democracy / Geoffrey Hawthorn and Camilla Lund. 4. Modernity and disenchantment: some reflections on Charles Taylor's diagnosis / Quentin Skinner. 5. Postmodernism and 'the end of philosophy' / David E. Cooper -- Pt. II. The critique of modernist political thought. 6. Antinomies of modernist political thought: reasoning, context and community / Raymond Plant. 7. Master narratives and feminist subversions / Diana Coole. 8. In different voices: deliberative democracy and aestheticist politics / Judith Squires -- Pt. III. Technology and the politics of culture. 9. Technology, modernity, politics / Herminio Martins. 10. Surrogates and substitutes: new practices for old? / Marilyn Strathern. 11. Postmodernism, the sublime and ethics / Roy Boyne
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Postmodernism -- Political aspects.
Author Velody, Irving.
Good, James, 1941-
LC no. 97042128
ISBN 0521461626 hardcover
0521467276 paperback