Culture and identity [[electronic resource] ] : critical theories / / Ross Abbinnett

• Autore: Abbinnett Ross
• Pubblicazione: London, : SAGE, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Culture; Group identity; Postmodernism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture and identity
• ISBN: 1-4462-2263-2; 1-4462-6473-4; 0-7619-6518-1; 1-283-89195-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451913003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Politics and culture (London, England)