02481nam 2200637Ia 450 991017099990332120200520144314.01-134-79509-20-203-00335-71-280-11027-91-134-79510-6978661011027810.4324/9780203003350 (CKB)1000000000249858(EBL)168833(OCoLC)179162149(SSID)ssj0000279377(PQKBManifestationID)11211559(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279377(PQKBWorkID)10259487(PQKB)11001561(MiAaPQ)EBC168833(Au-PeEL)EBL168833(CaPaEBR)ebr10054894(CaONFJC)MIL11027(EXLCZ)99100000000024985819980715d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFacing postmodernity contemporary French thought on culture and society /Max SilvermanLondon ;New York Routledge19991 online resource (209 p.)Social futures seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-12894-3 0-415-12893-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-190) and index.Book Cover; Title; Copyright; ContentsFacing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citizenship. It discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers, both the very well known -Lyotard, Levinas, Derrida - and those who will be less familiar to a non-French audience. In doing so, it addresses the questions central to the postmodern debate whatever country it takes place in; questions of history, of representation, identitRoutledge social futures series.PostmodernismFranceFranceCivilization1945-FranceIntellectual life20th centurySocial aspectsPostmodernism944.082Silverman Maxim917511MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910170999903321Facing postmodernity2259148UNINA