After postmodernism : reconstructing ideology critique
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After postmodernism : reconstructing ideology critique
（Inquiries in social construction）
Sage Publications, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This interdisciplinary book addresses the key questions posed by the postmodernist challenge: Is it possible to reflect and criticize in an age when every claim to truth is placed under suspicion? Are social critics contaminated by the same ideological distortions they identify in society?
The text reviews different responses to such dilemmas and thus examines ways to reconstruct social theory and critique following the postmodern attack on the traditional foundations of knowledge. Whether looking at political critique and praxis, feminist issues, ideology or teaching practices, the contributions are united by the need to ground a new theoretical and political position in the absence of the foundational certainties once provided by positivism and empiricism.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Michael Billig and Herbert W Simons
PART ONE: THE POSTMODERN PROBLEMATIC
Reconstructing Social Theory after the Postmodern Critique - Richard Harvey Brown
Evading the Subject - Steven E Cole
The Poverty of Contingency Theory
The Limits of Pure Critique - Kenneth J Gergen
Inscription and Horizon - Ian Angus
A Postmodern Civilizing Effect?
PART TWO: IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Staying Dumb? Feminist Research and Pedagogy with/in the Postmodern - Patti Lather
Teaching the Pedagogies - Herbert W Simons
A Dialectical Approach to an Ideological Dilemma
Sod Baudrillard! Or Ideology Critique in Disney World - Michael Billig
The New Politics of the Workplace - Stanley Deetz
Ideology and Other Unobtrusive Controls
For the Nation! How Street Gangs Problematize Patriotism - Dwight Conquergood
`Socialism of the Mind' - Dana L Cloud
The New Age of Post-Marxism
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