Culture and identity : critical theories / Ross Abbinnett.

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Abbinnett, Ross

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Politics and culture (London, England)Publication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (230 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781446264737
1446264734
9781446219584
1446219585

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture and identity.DDC classification:

306 22

LOC classification:

HM621 .A23 2003

Other classification:

71.50

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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' -- The 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index.

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.

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