1st Edition

Sociology of Postmodernism

By Dr Scott Lash Copyright 1990
    316 Pages
    by Routledge

    316 Pages
    by Routledge

    This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Lash examines the differences between modernism and postmodernism, providing a clear explanation of why postmodernism is important.

    Contents. Introduction. 1. Postmodernism: Towards a Sociological Account Part I Postmodernism and Social Theory 2. Genealogy and the Body 3. Postmodernity and Desire 4. Communicative Rationality and Desire 5. Modernity or Modernism: Weber and Contemporary Social Theory Part II Postmodernist Culture 6. Critical Theory and Postmodernist Culture: The Eclipse of Aura 7. Discourse of Figure: Postmodernism as a Regime of Signification Part III Modernism and Post Modernism: Social Correlates 8. Modernism and Bourgeois Identity: Paris/Vienna/Berlin 9. Modernization and Postmodernisation in the work of Pierre Bourdieu

    Biography

    Scott Lash