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Abbinnett Ross |
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Titolo |
Culture and identity [[electronic resource] ] : critical theories / / Ross Abbinnett |
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ISBN |
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1-4462-2263-2 |
1-4462-6473-4 |
0-7619-6518-1 |
1-283-89195-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource ([vii], 230 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Culture |
Group identity |
Postmodernism |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 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, DifférancePart 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This incisive text 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. |
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