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Culture and identity : critical theories / Ross Abbinnett.

By: Series: Politics and culture (London, England)Publication details: London ;Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2003Description: 230 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 076196519X (pbk.)
  • 9780761965190 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 ABB
Contents:
Part 1. 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 -- Part 2. Media, culture and identity. Technology, ideology and the culture industry -- Information, simulation and the 'silent majorities' -- The postmodern and the sublime -- Culture, politics, differance -- Part 3. Postmodernism and the end of history. Derrida, Fukuyama and the 'new world order' -- Science, technology and catastrophe -- Capitalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism.
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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 modernity -- Baudrillard : media and simulation -- Lyotard and Jameson : postmodernism and the aesthetic -- Derrida : deconstruction and identity -- Part 2. Media, culture and identity. Technology, ideology and the culture industry -- Information, simulation and the 'silent majorities' -- The postmodern and the sublime -- Culture, politics, differance -- Part 3. Postmodernism and the end of history. Derrida, Fukuyama and the 'new world order' -- Science, technology and catastrophe -- Capitalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism.