Sociology of PostmodernismThis authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Lash examines the differences between modernism and postmodernism, providing a clear explanation of why postmodernism is important. |
Contents
POSTMODERNITY AND DESIRE | 78 |
COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY AND DESIRE | 114 |
MODERNITY OR MODERNISM? WEBER | 123 |
CRITICAL THEORY AND POSTMODERNIST | 153 |
DISCOURSE OR FIGURE? POSTMODERNISM | 172 |
MODERNIZATION AND POSTMODERNIZATION | 237 |
Notes | 266 |
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Adorno aesthetic modernism aesthetic realm aesthetic sphere architecture argued auratic autonomization avant-garde baroque Benjamin Berlin body body without organs Bourdieu bourgeois identity bourgeoisie capitalism century cinema Classical commodification commodity communicative rationality concept contemporary context Critical Theory critique cultural forms cultural modernism cultural objects de-differentiation Deleuze and Guattari desire differentiation discourse economy ethics every-day example figures films Foucault foundationalism function G. A. Cohen German Habermas Habermas's Ibid images instrumental rationality Jürgen Habermas knowledge Lacan language London Lyotard Marxism Max Weber means metanarratives Michel Foucault modernist moral narrative nature Nietzsche Nietzsche's norms notion organs painting Paris political popular culture postmodern culture postmodernist culture poststructuralism poststructuralists principle problematic production realist reality representations reproduction sciences Secession sense sexuality signifier sociology space speak structure struggles substantive rationality surrealism surrealist symbolic theatre theoretical theorists tion unconscious urban use-value Vienna Viennese Weber working-class
References to this book
Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture Professor Roland Robertson No preview available - 1992 |