Sociology of Postmodernism

Informationen zum Autor Scott Lash Zusammenfassung This 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter 1 Postmodernism: Towards A Sociological Account; Part One Postmodernism and Social Theory; Chapter 2 Genealogy and the Body: Foucault/Deleuze/Nietzsche; Chapter 3 Postmodernity and Desire; Chapter 4 Communicative Rationality and Desire, Roy Boyne, Scott Lash; Chapter 5 Modernity or Modernism? Weber and Contemporary Social Theory; Part Two Postmodernist Culture; Chapter 6 Critical Theory and Postmodernist Culture: The Eclipse of Aura; Chapter 7 Discourse or Figure? Postmodernism as A ‘Regime of Signification’; Part Three Modernism and Postmodernism: Social Correlates; Chapter 8 Modernism and Bourgeois Identity: Paris/Vienna/Berlin; Chapter 9 Modernization and Postmodernization in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu;

Product details

• Authors: Dr Scott Lash, Scott Lash, Scott (Goldsmiths College London Lash, Lash Scott
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2016
• EAN: 9781138171732
• ISBN: 978-1-138-17173-2
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: International Library of Sociology; International Library of Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General