152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1995. The question of 'postmodernity' that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only non-Western society to develop independently a... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 From Modernity to Postmodernity?; Chapter 3 High Culture/Mass Culture and the Experience of Late Modernity; Chapter 4 Modernity and Lifestyle in the Japanese City; Chapter 5 Natural Being/Social Being; Chapter 6 Modernity and the Self; Chapter 7 Hierarchy, ‘Group’ and Individual; Chapter 8 Social Theory and the Part icularities of Asian Modernity;
Biography
John Clammer
