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Culture and identity : critical theories / Ross Abbinnett.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics and culturePublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2003.Description: 230 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0761965181
  • 076196519X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 22
Contents:
Part 1. Postmodernity and postmodernism. Levinas and Bauman : the ethics of care -- Beck and Giddens : risk and reflexive modernit y -- Baudrillard : media and simulation -- Lyotard and Jameson : postmodernism and the aesthetic -- Derrida : deconstruction and iden tity -- Part 2. Media, culture and identity. Technology, ideol ogy and the culture industry -- Information, simulation and the 'sil ent majorities' -- The postmodern and the sublime -- Culture, pol itics, differance -- Part 3. Postmodernism and the end of history . Derrida, Fukuyama and the 'new world order' -- Science, technol ogy and catastrophe -- Capitalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism .
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Books - Open Access Books - Open Access Main Library - IDA 306 ABB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 263722

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-220) and index.

Part 1. Postmodernity and postmodernism. Levinas and Bauman : the ethics of care -- Beck and Giddens : risk and reflexive modernit y -- Baudrillard : media and simulation -- Lyotard and Jameson : postmodernism and the aesthetic -- Derrida : deconstruction and iden tity -- Part 2. Media, culture and identity. Technology, ideol ogy and the culture industry -- Information, simulation and the 'sil ent majorities' -- The postmodern and the sublime -- Culture, pol itics, differance -- Part 3. Postmodernism and the end of history . Derrida, Fukuyama and the 'new world order' -- Science, technol ogy and catastrophe -- Capitalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism .

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