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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781446265291
  • 1446265293
  • 9781446218259
  • 1446218252
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modernity and postmodernity.DDC classification:
  • 300/.1 21
  • 301.01 21
LOC classification:
  • HM73 .D434 2000
Other classification:
  • 08.42
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-191) and index.

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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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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