LEADER 02481nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910170999903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-79509-2 010 $a0-203-00335-7 010 $a1-280-11027-9 010 $a1-134-79510-6 010 $a9786610110278 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203003350 035 $a(CKB)1000000000249858 035 $a(EBL)168833 035 $a(OCoLC)179162149 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000279377 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11211559 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279377 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10259487 035 $a(PQKB)11001561 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC168833 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL168833 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10054894 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL11027 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000249858 100 $a19980715d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFacing postmodernity $econtemporary French thought on culture and society /$fMax Silverman 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 225 1 $aSocial futures series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-12894-3 311 $a0-415-12893-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-190) and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents 330 $aFacing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citizenship. It discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers, both the very well known -Lyotard, Levinas, Derrida - and those who will be less familiar to a non-French audience. In doing so, it addresses the questions central to the postmodern debate whatever country it takes place in; questions of history, of representation, identit 410 0$aRoutledge social futures series. 606 $aPostmodernism$zFrance 607 $aFrance$xCivilization$y1945- 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y20th century$xSocial aspects 615 0$aPostmodernism 676 $a944.082 700 $aSilverman$b Maxim$0917511 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910170999903321 996 $aFacing postmodernity$92259148 997 $aUNINA