Modernity and postmodernity [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge, power and the self / / Gerard Delanty
Pubbl/distr/stampa
London, : SAGE, c2000
ISBN
1-4462-6529-3
0-7619-5903-3
1-283-88054-7
1-4462-3303-0
Descrizione fisica
1 online resource (211 p.)
Disciplina
300/.1
Soggetti
Postmodernism - Social aspects
Social sciences - Philosophy
Sociology - Philosophy
Electronic books.
Lingua di pubblicazione
Inglese
Formato
Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico
Monografia
Note generali
Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto
Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Discourses of Modernity; Chapter 2 - Modernity and Secularization; Chapter 3 - The Pathogenesis of Modernity; Chapter 4 - The Impossibility of Modernity; Chapter 5 - Rescuing Modernity; Chapter 6 - Postmodernism and the Possibility of Community; Chapter 7 - From Modernity to Postmodernity; Chapter 8 - Further Reflections; Notes; References; Index
Sommario/riassunto
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.