Theories of modernity and postmodernity

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Theories of modernity and postmodernity

edited by Bryan S. Turner

（Theory, culture and society）

Sage, 1990

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographies and index

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This book encapsulates the recent debate on the concepts of modernity and postmodernity. Arguments over modernism and its aftermath are traced to their origins in art, architecture and literature. The authors then focus on the contribution of sociology to this cultural dispute through the theories of Weber, Simmel, Habermas, Lyotard and Baudrillard. Throughout, Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity demonstrates the connections between traditional problems of sociological theory and the contemporary debate around modernity.

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PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: DEFINING POSTMODERNITY Modernity and Postmodernity - Bryan S Turner Modernity, Postmodernity and the Present - Barry Smart PART TWO: NOSTALGIA AND MODERNITY Reading Wall Street - Norman K Denzin Postmodern Contradictions in the American Social Structure After Nostalgia? Wilful Nostalgia and the Phases of Globalization - Roland Robertson Postmodernism as Humanism? Urban Space and Social Theory - Scott Lash Simmel and the Theory of Postmodern Society - Deena Weinstein and Michael A Weinstein PART THREE: CRITICAL THEORY AND THE MODERN PROJECT Habermas and the Completion of `The Project of Modernity' - David Ashley Lyotard and Weber - Charles Turner Postmodern Rules and Neo-Kantian Values PART FOUR: POLITICS, WOMEN AND POSTMODERNITY Women between Fundamentalism and Modernity - Ayseg[um]ul Baykan Women between Modernity and Postmodernity - Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen Citizenship in the Semiotic Society - Philip Wexler

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