Modernity and Postmodernity - Knowledge, Power and the Self

Informationen zum Autor Gerard Delanty is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool Klappentext This accessible and comprehensive overview of the main issues on the modernity-postmodernity controversy is the first clear-sighted book on the subject. It surveys modern social theory, from Kant to Weber with economy and masterly precision. And evaluates the work of the Frankfurt School, Arendy, Strauss, Luhmann, Habermas, Heller, Castoriadis and Touraine, before moving on to consider the approaches of the leading writers on postmodenrity: Lyotard, Vattimo, Derrida, Foucault and Jameson. The result is a new way of conceptualizing the modernity-postmodernity debate, and an exciting new approach to the roots of contemporary social theory. Zusammenfassung A new way of conceptualizing the modernity-postmodernity debate! and an exciting new approach to the roots of contemporary social theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Knowledge, Power and the Self The Discourses of Modernity Enlightenment, Modernism and Fin-de-si[e]cle Sociology Modernity and Secularization Religion and the Postmodern Challenge The Pathogenesis of Modernity The Limits of Enlightenment The Impossibility of Modernity Cultural Crystallization and the Problem of Contingency Rescuing Modernity The Recovery of the Social Postmodernism and the Possibility of Community From Modernity to Postmodernity Postdialectics and the Aesthetization of the Social Further Reflections Constructivism beyond Postmodernism

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gerard Delanty, Delanty Gerard
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.05.2000
• EAN: 9780761959038
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5903-8
• Pagine: 208
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Cultural Theory;Social Theory