Zygmunt Bauman
This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity.|
Author is a sociologist of world rank
Author is credited with being a major influence on postmodernism
Introduction is clearest discussion of postmodernism available
A balanced view of postmodernism
Introduction, 1. LEGISLATORS AND INTERPRETERS: CULTURE AS THE IDEOLOGY OF INTELLECTUALS, 2. SOCIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO POSTMODERNITY, 3. THE CHANGING DISCURSIVE FORMATION OF SOCIOLOGY, 4. IS THERE A POSTMODERN SOCIOLOGY?, 5. PHILOSOPHICAL AFFINITIES OF POSTMODERN SOCIOLOGY, 6. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JEAN BAUDRILLARD, 7. COMMUNISM: A POSTMORTEM, 8. LIVING WITHOUT AN ALTERNATIVE, 9. A SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF POSTMODERNITY, Appendix, Index
One subject which captured the imagination of sociologists, philosophers, political scientists and writers on culture in the 1980s was postmodernism. This text considers the meaning and importance of postmodernity.
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Zygmunt Bauman
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction, 1. LEGISLATORS AND INTERPRETERS: CULTURE AS THE IDEOLOGY OF INTELLECTUALS, 2. SOCIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO POSTMODERNITY, 3. THE CHANGING DISCURSIVE FORMATION OF SOCIOLOGY, 4. IS THERE A POSTMODERN SOCIOLOGY?, 5. PHILOSOPHICAL AFFINITIES OF POSTMODERN SOCIOLOGY, 6. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JEAN BAUDRILLARD, 7. COMMUNISM: A POSTMORTEM, 8. LIVING WITHOUT AN ALTERNATIVE, 9. A SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF POSTMODERNITY, Appendix, Index
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This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity.
