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The Life and Times of Post-Modernity

Author : Keith Tester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134859570
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Post-Modernity written by Keith Tester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Postmodernity' is often claimed as a great transformation in society and culture. But is it? In this book Keith Tester casts a cautious eye on such grandiose claims. Tester draws on a series of themes and stories from European sociology and literature to show that many of the great statements from 'postmodernity' are misplaced. 'Postmodernity' is not the harbinger or expression of a new world. It is a reflection of the unresolved paradoxes and possibilities of modernity. The author establishes a clearly expressed and stimulating model of modernity to demonstrate the stakes and consequences of 'postmodernity'. This book uses a wealth of sources which are usually denigrated or ignored in the debates on 'postmodernity'. As such it sheds new light on old claims. But it never fails to acknowledge the profound insights of sociologists and other authors. The Life and Times of Post-Modernity is a continuation of the themes which Tester raised in his earlier books with Routledge, The Two Sovereigns and Civil Society .

The Life and Times of Post-Modernity

Author : Keith Tester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134859562
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Post-Modernity written by Keith Tester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Postmodernity' is often claimed as a great transformation in society and culture. But is it? In this book Keith Tester casts a cautious eye on such grandiose claims. Tester draws on a series of themes and stories from European sociology and literature to show that many of the great statements from 'postmodernity' are misplaced. 'Postmodernity' is not the harbinger or expression of a new world. It is a reflection of the unresolved paradoxes and possibilities of modernity. The author establishes a clearly expressed and stimulating model of modernity to demonstrate the stakes and consequences of 'postmodernity'. This book uses a wealth of sources which are usually denigrated or ignored in the debates on 'postmodernity'. As such it sheds new light on old claims. But it never fails to acknowledge the profound insights of sociologists and other authors. The Life and Times of Post-Modernity is a continuation of the themes which Tester raised in his earlier books with Routledge, The Two Sovereigns and Civil Society .

The Life and Times of Post-modernity

Author : Keith Tester
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415098328
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Post-modernity written by Keith Tester and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernity is often claimed as a great transformation in society and culture. But is it? In this book, Keith Tester casts a cautious eye on such grandiose claims. Tester draws on a series of themes and stories from European sociology and literature to show that many of the great statements from postmodernity are misplaced. Postmodernity is not the harbinger or expression of a new world. It is a reflection of the unresolved paradoxes and possibilities of modernity. The author establishes a clearly expressed and stimulating model of modernity to demonstrate the stakes and consequences of postmodernity. This book uses a wealth of sources which are usually denigrated or ignored in the debates on postmodernity. As such, it sheds new light on old claims. But it never fails to acknowledge the profound insights of sociologists and other authors. The Life and Times of Post-Modernity is a continuation of the themes which Tester raised in his earlier books with Routledge, The Two Sovereigns and Civil Society.

The Postmodern Condition

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816611737
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Postmodern Condition written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Explaining Postmodernism

Author : Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781592476428
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Explaining Postmodernism written by Stephen R. C. Hicks and published by Scholargy Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scenes from Postmodern Life

Author : Beatriz Sarlo
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816630097
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Scenes from Postmodern Life written by Beatriz Sarlo and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bracing book. Beatriz Sarlo offers a remarkably clear, forthright, and forceful statement of what precisely cultural criticism is and might be in our age of manic consumption, commercialization, popularization, and mass marketing.

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822310907
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism written by Fredric Jameson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Postmodernity

Author : David Lyon
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816632275
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernity written by David Lyon and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second edition of this highly successful text, postmodernity is seen as the social condition of the twenty-first century, in which some of the most familiar features of the modern world are not only called into question, but actually undermined by novel trends. The key carriers of the postmodern--new technologies and consumerism--emerged in thoroughly modern contexts, but so profoundly affect everyday social life that modernity itself is changing shape. Postmodernity is a way of describing a new society-in-the-making without supposing that modernity has been entirely left behind. While some dub these changes as "high" or "late" modern, this book argues that "postmodernity" best captures today's transformations or modernity.

Life, Work and Learning

Author : David Beckett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134717881
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Life, Work and Learning written by David Beckett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In both paid and unpaid work contexts adults learn powerfully from their experiences. In this book, the authors argue that this should be the basis for a new perception of what is truly educational in life. Drawing on the works of Aristotle, Wittgenstein and Russell, along with contemporary conceptual work, they use both philosophical argument and empirical example to establish their view. This work will be of essential interest to philosophers of education and educational theorists worldwide. It will also interest teachers, trainers, facilitators, and all those with an interest in adult and vocational education.

The Troubles With Postmodernism

Author : Stefan Morawski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134869789
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Troubles With Postmodernism written by Stefan Morawski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and eye-opening study, Stefan Morawski sheds light on the often confused debate about postmodernism, postmodernity and human values. Drawing upon a wide range of evidence from the experience of everyday life in the sciences, religion, visual arts, literature, film, television and contemporary music, The Troubles with Postmodernism is an indispensable guide to our understanding and evaluation of contemporary literature.

Roads to Dystopia, Sociological Essay on the Post Modern Condition (c)

Author : Stanford M. Lyman
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610753500
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Roads to Dystopia, Sociological Essay on the Post Modern Condition (c) written by Stanford M. Lyman and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Inhuman Condition

Author : Keith Tester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134842422
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Inhuman Condition written by Keith Tester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a major interpretation of contemporary cultural and social relationships, encompassing the work of thinkers such as Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin and Simmel.

Time

Author : Helga Nowotny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745692680
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Time written by Helga Nowotny and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a survey. From the artificial time of the scientific laboratory to the distinctively modern yearning for one’s own time, she regards every topic in this wide-ranging book from a fresh angle of vision, one which reveals unsuspected affinities between the bravest, newest worlds of global technology and the most ancient worlds of myth." --Lorraine Daston, University of Chicago This book represents a major contribution to the understanding of time, giving particular attention to time in relation to modernity. The development of industrialism, the author points out, was based upon a linear and abstract conception of time. Today we see that form of production, and the social institutions associated with it, supplanted by flexible specialization and just-in-time production systems. New information and communication technologies have made a fundamental impact here. But what does all this mean for temporal regimes? How can we understand the transformation of time and space involved in the bewildering variety of options on offer in a postmodern world? The author provides an incisive analysis of the temporal implications of modern communication. She considers the implications of worldwide simultaneous experience, made possible by satellite technologies, and considers the reorganization of time involved in the continuous technological innovation that marks our era. In this puzzling universe of action, how does one achieve a 'time of one's own'? The discovery of a specific time perspective centred in the individual, she shows, expresses a yearning for forms of experience that are subversive of established institutional patterns. This brilliant study, became a classic in Germany, will be of interest to students and professionals working in the areas of social theory, sociology, politics and anthropology.

Insurrecto

Author : Gina Apostol
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641290927
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Insurrecto written by Gina Apostol and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bravura performance."—The New York Times Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines’ present and America’s past by the PEN Open Book Award–winning author of Gun Dealers’ Daughter. Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte’s Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created “a howling wilderness” of the surrounding countryside. Magsalin reads Chiara’s film script and writes her own version. Insurrecto contains within its dramatic action two rival scripts from the filmmaker and the translator—one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher. Within the spiraling voices and narrative layers of Insurrecto are stories of women—artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters—finding their way to their own truths and histories. Using interlocking voices and a kaleidoscopic structure, the novel is startlingly innovative, meditative, and playful. Insurrecto masterfully questions and twists narrative in the manner of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch, and Nabokov’s Pale Fire. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga, and in so doing, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of Philippine and American history.

Postmodern Times

Author : Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 9781433529337
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Times written by Gene Edward Veith Jr. and published by Crossway. This book was released on 1994-02-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, have blown up. The postmodern age has begun. Just what is postmodernism? The average person would be shocked by its creed: Truth, meaning, and individual identity do not exist. These are social constructs. Human life has no special significance, no more value than animal or plant life. All social relationships, all institutions, all moral values are expressions and masks of the primal will to power. Alarmingly, these ideas have gripped the nation's universities, which turn out today's lawyers, judges, writers, journalists, teachers, and other culture-shapers. Through society's influences, postmodernist ideas have seeped into films, television, art, literature, politics; and, without his knowing it, into the head of the average person on the street. Christ has called us to proclaim the gospel to a culture grappling with postmodernism. We must understand our times. Then, through the power that Christ gives, we can counter the prevailing culture and proclaim His sufficiency to our society's very points of need.

Fashionable Nonsense

Author : Alan Sokal
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466862408
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Fashionable Nonsense written by Alan Sokal and published by Picador. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and made the headlines of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. Now in Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Sokal and his fellow physicist Jean Bricmont expand from where the hoax left off. In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the two thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals. More generally, they challenge the widespread notion that scientific theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions.

The Social Science Encyclopedia

Author : Adam Kuper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415108294
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Social Science Encyclopedia written by Adam Kuper and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference has been written by an international team of contributors presenting a global understanding of the key issues within social sciences. A board of advisory editors has worked closely with the editors in determining the most important concepts, thinkers and techniques in each field.