Modernity and postmodernity : knowledge, power and the self

Modernity and postmodernity : knowledge, power and the self / Gerard Delanty.

Gerard Delanty evaluates with economy and precision the work of the Frankfurt School, Arendy, Strauss, Luhmann, Habermas Heller, Castoriadis and Touraine. He then moves on to consider Lyotard, Vattimo, Derrida, Foucault and Jameson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delanty, Gerard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2000.
Subjects:
Postmodernism > Social aspects.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Sociology > Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Postmodernism > Social aspects
Social sciences > Philosophy
Sociology > Philosophy
Moderniteit.
Postmodernisme.
Cultuurfilosofie.
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
Modernité.
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Table of Contents:
  • The discourses of modernity : enlightenment modernism and fin-de-siècle sociology
  • Modernity and secularization : religion and the postmodern challenge
  • The pathogenesis of modernity : the limits of the enlightenment
  • The impossibility of modernity : cultural crystallization and the problem of contingenecy
  • Rescueing modernity : the recovery of the social
  • Postmodernism and the possibility of community
  • From modernity to postmodernity : post-dialectics and the aestheticization of the social
  • Further reflections : constructivism beyond postmodernity.

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