Modernity and Postmodernity

1st Edition

Knowledge, Power and the Self

Gerard Delanty
eISBN-13: 9781446265291

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This accessible and comprehensive overview of the main issues on the modernity-postmodernity controversy is the first clear-sighted book on the subject. It surveys modern social theory, from Kant to Weber with economy and masterly precision. And evaluates the work of the Frankfurt School, Arendy, Strauss, Luhmann, Habermas, Heller, Castoriadis and Touraine, before moving on to consider the approaches of the leading writers on postmodenrity: Lyotard, Vattimo, Derrida, Foucault and Jameson.



The result is a new way of conceptualizing the modernity-postmodernity debate, and an exciting new approach to the roots of contemporary social theory.



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ISBNs 1446265293, 9781446265291, 9780761959038, 9780761959045
Language English
Number of Pages 211
Edition 1st