| Description |
230 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Politics and culture |
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Politics and culture series |
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Politics and culture (London, England)
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Politics and culture series.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Culture and Identity provides: a discussion of the main themes in the modernity-postmodernity debate; an account of how these themes address everyday life; an account of how technology is altering our perceptions of the ̀€human'; and an account of the hope for radical politics and radical critique to correct the excesses of capitalism. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Notes |
"Series published in association with Theory, Culture & Society"--back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Culture.
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Group identity.
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Postmodernism.
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| LC no. |
2002113501 |
| ISBN |
0761965181 cased |
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076196519X paperback |
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