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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953391303321

Autore

Delanty Gerard

Titolo

Modernity and postmodernity : knowledge, power and the self / / Gerard Delanty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, : SAGE, 2000

London ; ; Thousand Oaks : , : SAGE, , 2000

ISBN

9781446265291

1446265293

9780761959038

0761959033

9781283880541

1283880547

9781446233030

1446233030

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 194 p.)

Disciplina

300/.1

Soggetti

Postmodernism - Social aspects

Social sciences - Philosophy

Sociology - Philosophy

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.