Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies

1. Auflage 1991
ISBN: 978-0-415-06952-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

Reihe: Social Futures

In this accomplished, comprehensive and accessible book Barry Smart explores these questions. The book examines the social and economic processes which have shaped and continue to shape life today. It also provides exemplary critical assessments of the various `modern' and `postmodern' thinkers who have sought to explain these processes. Judicious in its judgements and superbly informed, the text is a major contribution to the debate on Modernity and Postmodernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smart, Barry

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Reflections on change; questions concerning technology and (post) industrial society; alternative futures; art, work and analysis in an age of electronic simulation; the postmodern paradox; marxism, culture and change.

Über Autor(innen)

Barry Smart