Culture and Identity : Critical Theories
This incisive and timely book provides a concise and reliable guide to the debate on modernity and postmodernity. What emerges most forcefully from the book is the error of dismissing postmodernism as a self-indulgent and ultimately, dangerous piece of ideology
Specialized.
1 online resource (241 pages).
9781446264737, 1446264734
1058168150
Acknowledgements; Introduction ; Part I
Postmodernity and Postmodernism ; Chapter 1
Levinas and Bauman: The Ethics of Care; Chapter 2
Beck and Giddens: Risk and Reflexive Modernity; Chapter 3
Baudrillard: Media and Simulation; Chapter 4
Lyotard and Jameson: Postmodernism and the Aesthetic ; Chapter 5
Derrida: Deconstruction and Identity ; Part II
Media, Culture and Identity ; Chapter 6
Technology, Ideology and the Culture Industry ; Chapter 7
Information, Simulation and the 'Silent Majorities' ; Chapter 8
The Postmodern and the Sublime. Chapter 9
Culture, Politics, Différance Part III
Postmodernism and the End of History ; Chapter 10
Derrida, Fukuyama and the 'New World Order' ; Chapter 11
Science, Technology and Catastrophe ; Chapter 12
Capitalism, Globalization and Cosmopolitanism ; Bibliography ; Index
English