Politics of Postmodernity - An Introduction to Contemporary Politics and Culture

Informationen zum Autor John R Gibbins is at the University of Teesside. Bo Reimer is at San Jose University. Klappentext What happens to politics in the postmodern condition? The Politics of Postmodernity is a political tour de force that addresses this key contemporary question. Politics in postmodernity is carefully contextualized by relating its specific sphere - the polity - to those of the economic, social, technological and cultural. The authors confront globalization and the notion of postmodernity as disorganized capitalism. They analyze the role of the mass media, the changing ways in which politics is used, the role of the state and the progressive potential of politics in postmodern times. Closing with a postscript on the future of the discipline of political science, this book offers a profound yet highly accessible account of how politics is undergoing a shift from the modern to the postmodern. Zusammenfassung The authors seek to provide an accessible account of how politics is undergoing a shift from the modern to the postmodern. They outline the concepts of postmodernity! postmodernism and postmodernization to explain the transformation of the personal and public worlds in contemporary Western society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Languages of Postmodernism Postmodernization Mass Media, Postmodernity and Everyday Life The Postmodern Self Lifestyle in Postmodernity Values, New Politics and New Social Movements The New State, Transnationalism and the International Order Postmodern Political Futures

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• Authors: John R Gibbins, John R R Gibbins, John R R Reimer Gibbins, John R Reimer Gibbins, John R. Gibbins, John R. Reimer Gibbins, Bo Reimer, Reimer Bo
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.1999
• EAN: 9780761952220
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5222-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Political Theory & Thought;Political Sociology