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Civil Society
critical perspectives on postmodernity
cultural paradoxes
Don Quixote
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European social thought
Face To Face
Follow
franz
georg
Georg Simmel
Held
identity formation
intellectuals
kafka
kundera
Liberal Ironism
Linear Time
maffesoli
michel
Michel Maffesoli
milan
Modern Pilgrimages
modernity critique
Natural Artifice
Persona
Post-modern Condition
Post-modern Groups
Postmodern Condition
reflexive
Reflexive Discourse
Reflexive Intellectual
Reified Forms
Revolutionary Proletariat
simmel
Smooth
Societal Milieu
sociological theory
Technical Intelligentsia
technology and society
Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Product details
- ISBN 9780415098328
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'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 .
