Culture and identity : critical theories /
Ross Abbinnett.
- London ;Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2003
- 230 p. ; 24 cm.
- Politics and culture .
- Politics and culture (London, England) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-220) and index.
Postmodernity and postmodernism. Levinas and Bauman : the ethics of care -- Beck and Giddens : risk and reflexive modernity -- Baudrillard : media and simulation -- Lyotard and Jameson : postmodernism and the aesthetic -- Derrida : deconstruction and identity -- Media, culture and identity. Technology, ideology and the culture industry -- Information, simulation and the 'silent majorities' -- The postmodern and the sublime -- Culture, politics, differance -- Postmodernism and the end of history. Derrida, Fukuyama and the 'new world order' -- Science, technology and catastrophe -- Capitalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.