| Modernity and Postmodernity: Knowledge, Power and the Self Contributor(s): Delanty, Gerard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761959033 ISBN-13: 9780761959038 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $236.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Methodology - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 300.1 |
| LCCN: 00700036 |
| Physical Information: 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Delanty, Gerard: - Gerard Delanty is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool |