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ISBN 10: 0761965181

ISBN 13: 9780761965183

Author: Ross Abbinnett

Ross Abbinnett brings a keen and subtle philosophical mind to bear on themes and debates that have become commonplace in sociology. This is a sinuously written book which casts new light on pressing contemporary issues. It is required reading for everyone who wants to think seriously and with an open mind about the terrain of the present′ – Keith Tester, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth This incisive and timely book 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. Culture and Identity provides: a thorough and accessible discussion of the main themes in the modernity-postmodernity debate; a shrewd and penetrating account of how these themes address everyday life; a novel account of how technology is altering our perceptions of the `human′; and a balanced account of the hope for radical politics and radical critique to correct the excesses of capitalism. What emerges most forcefully from the book is the error of dismissing postmodernism as a self-indulgent and ultimately, dangerous piece of ideology. Abbinnett provides a pertinent reminder of the continuing importance of the themes and challenges raised in the `postmodern moment′.

Culture and Identity Critical Theories 1st Table of contents:

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, Différance

Part 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

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