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Modernity and Postmodernity: Knowledge, Power and the Self
Author(s): Gerard Delanty (Author)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 5 May 2000
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 0761959033
- ISBN-13: 9780761959038
Book Description
This accessible and comprehensive overview of the main issues on the modernity-postmodernity controversy is the first clear-sighted book on the subject. It surveys modern social theory, from Kant to Weber with economy and masterly precision. And evaluates the work of the Frankfurt School, Arendy, Strauss, Luhmann, Habermas, Heller, Castoriadis and Touraine, before moving on to consider the approaches of the leading writers on postmodenrity: Lyotard, Vattimo, Derrida, Foucault and Jameson.
The result is a new way of conceptualizing the modernity-postmodernity debate, and an exciting new approach to the roots of contemporary social theory.
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About the Author
Gerard Delanty is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool
