Modernity and Postmodernity: Knowledge, Power and the Self
Author:   Gerard Delanty
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
ISBN:  

9780761959045


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   19 April 2000
Format:   Paperback
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Modernity and Postmodernity: Knowledge, Power and the Self


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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.

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Author:   Gerard Delanty
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9780761959045


ISBN 10:   0761959041
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   19 April 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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Gerard Delanty is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool

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