| Description |
1 online resource (230 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Series |
Politics and culture
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Politics and culture (London, England)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Postmodernity and postmodernism. Levinas and Bauman : the ethics of care -- Beck and Giddens : risk and reflexive modernity -- Baudrillard : media and simulation -- Lyotard and Jameson : postmodernism and the aesthetic -- Derrida : deconstruction and identity -- Part 2. Media, culture and identity. Technology, ideology and the culture industry -- Information, simulation and the 'silent majorities' -- Postmodern and the sublime -- Culture, politics, differance -- Part 3. Postmodernism and the end of history. Derrida, Fukuyama and the 'new world order' -- Science, technology and catastrophe -- Capitalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. |
| Summary |
This incisive text provides a concise and reliable guide to the debate on modernity and postmodernity. In particular the work of Lyotard, Beck, Bauman, Baudrillard, Giddens, Jameson and Derrida is critically reviewed. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Culture.
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Culture. |
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Group identity.
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Group identity. |
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Postmodernism.
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Postmodernism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Abbinnett, Ross. Culture and identity. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2003 9780761965190 (DLC) 2002113501 (OCoLC)51438793 |
| ISBN |
9781446264737 (electronic book) |
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1446264734 (electronic book) |
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9781446219584 (ebook) |
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1446219585 (ebook) |
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0761965181 |
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9780761965183 |
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076196519X (paperback) |
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9780761965190 (paperback) |
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