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1 online resource (250 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; GLOSSARY OF POST-MODERN TERMS; ONE: Into the Fray: Crisis, Continuity, and Diversity; TWO: Abandoning the Author, Transforming the Text, and Re-orienting the Reader; THREE: Subverting the Subject; FOUR: Humbling History, Transforming Time, and Garbling Geography (Space); FIVE: A Theory of Theory and the Terrorism of Truth; SIX: Repudiating Representation; SEVEN: Epistemology and Methodology: Post-Modern Alternatives; EIGHT: Post-Modern Political Orientations and Social Science; NINE: Elements for an Assessment; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are today being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. Serving as neither an opponent nor an apologist for the movement, she cuts through post-modernism's often incomprehensible jargon in order to offer all |
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Print version record |
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Social movements.
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social movements.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects
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Social movements
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Social sciences -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400820610 |
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1400820618 |
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