| Description |
xii, 131 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Concepts in the social sciences |
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Concepts in the social sciences.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Screen Replicants and Social Realities -- 2. Postmodernity: The History of an Idea -- 3. Modernity and its Discontents -- 4. From Postindustrialism to Postmodernity -- 5. Consumerism and Beyond: The Shape(lessness) of Things to Come -- 6. Postmodernity, Fin de Millenaire and the Future |
| Summary |
"Postmodernity is explored as a theoretical concept in order to uncover and illuminate central social trends of the present. Its historical roots and cultural dimensions are examined, as are the ideas of its leading theorists. In this updated and expanded edition, greater attention is paid to processes of globalization as well as to the postmodern view of cyberspace, cyborgs, and the body as a site of moral conflict."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [111]-126 |
| Subject |
Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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Postmodernism.
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Social change.
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| LC no. |
00001413 |
| ISBN |
033520144X (paperback) |
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0335201458 |
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