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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784498503321

Autore

Dunn Robert G

Titolo

Identity crises [[electronic resource] ] : a social critique of postmodernity / / Robert G. Dunn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1998

ISBN

0-8166-8876-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

300/.1

306

Soggetti

Postmodernism - Social aspects

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Regrounding Theory: The Social Relations of Identity and Difference; 2 Modernity and Postmodernity: Transformations in Identity Formation; 3 On the Transition from Modernity to Postmodernity: Transformations in Culture; 4 Explaining the Destabilization of Identity: Postmodernization, Commodification, and the Leveling of Cultural Hierarchy; 5 Identity, Politics, and the Dual Logic of Postmodernity: Fragmentation and Pluralization; 6 Redeeming the Subject: Poststructuralism, Meadian Social Pragmatism, and the Turn to Intersubjectivity

Conclusion: Postmodernity and Its Theoretical ConsequencesNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Though the term "postmodern" looms large on our cultural landscape, rarely do we find a systematic and impartial discussion of the circumstances of its ascendance. Identity Crises offers just such an accounting. In this book, Robert G. Dunn situates the intellectual currency of "the postmodern" within the larger context of social and cultural change shaping the movement over the past several decades.