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Culture and Identity

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This incisive and timely book 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. Culture and Identity provides: - a thorough and accessible discussion of the main themes in the modernity-postmodernity debate - a shrewd and penetrating account of how these themes address everyday life - a novel account of how technology is altering our perceptions of the 'human' - a balanced account of the hope for radical politics and radical critique to correct the excesses of capitalism.
Ross Abbinnett is a Lecturer in the School of Social and Historical Studies at the University of Portsmouth
Introduction PART ONE: POSTMODERNITY AND POSTMODERNISM Levinas and Bauman The Ethics of Care Beck and Giddens Risk and Reflexive Modernity Baudrillard Media and Simulation Lyotard and Jameson Postmodernity and the Aesthetic Derrida Deconstruction and Identity PART TWO: 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 THREE: POSTMODERNISM AND THE END OF HISTORY Derrida, Fukuyama and the `New World Order' Science, Technology and Catastrophe Capitalism, Globalization and Cosmopolitanism
`Ross Abbinnett brings a keen and subtle philosophical mind to bear on themes and debates that have become commonplace in sociology. This is a sinuously written book which casts new light on pressing contemporary issues. It is required reading for everyone who wants to think seriously and with an open mind about the terrain of the present' - Keith Tester, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth
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