Author : Steven Best
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 1991-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349217182
An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.
Author : John Sanbonmatsu
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1583670904
A work of political theory with a focus on questions of strategy that examines the politics of the New Left in the 1960s, showing how its expressivism led to political division and also prepared the ground for postmodernism. It shows also how the political economy of academic life in an increasingly commodified society strengthened the basis of postmodernism. Develops a brilliant account of a Marxism that sets itself the task of building a collective political subject capable of challenging capitalism in its moment of global crisis. [publisher web site].
Author : Carl A. Raschke
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813933064
While the academic study of religion has increased almost exponentially in the past fifty years, general theories of religion have been in significant decline. In his new book, Carl Raschke offers the first systematic exploration of how the postmodern philosophical theories of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek have contributed significantly to the development of a theory of religion as a whole. The bold paradigm he uses to articulate the framework for a revolution in religious theory comes from semiotics--namely, the problem of the sign and the "singularity" or "event horizon" from which a sign is generated.
Author : Adele E. Clarke
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2005-03-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0761930566
Providing an introduction to situational analysis, Adele E. Clarke outlines how this method differs from and is superior to grounded theory and to qualitative data analysis.
Author : N. Gane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2002-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230502512
This book explores the contemporary nature of Max Weber's work by looking in detail at his key concepts of rationalization and disenchantment. Thematic parallels are drawn between Weber's rationalization thesis and the critiques of contemporary culture developed by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard. It is suggested that these three 'postmoden' thinkers develop and respond to Weber's analysis of modernity by pursuing radical strategies of affirmation and re-enchantment. Examining the work of these three key thinkers in this way casts new light both on postmodern theory and on Weber's sociology of rationalization.
Author : Steven Best
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780898624182
In this timely volume, the authors systematically analyze postmodern theory to evaluate its relevance for critical social theory and radical politics today. Best and Kellner provide: * An introduction and critique of the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Laclau and Mouffe, and Jameson, which assess the varying contributions and limitations of postmodern theory * A discussion of postmodern feminist theory and the politics of identity * A systematic study of the origin of the discourse of the postmodern in historical, sociological, cultural, and philosophical studies. The authors claim that while postmodern theory provides insights into contemporary developments, it lacks adequate methodological and political perspectives to provide a critical social theory and radical politics for the present age.
Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 1992-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781557862846
A new division has emerged in the social sciences between modernists and their post-modern critics. The former defend the project of a general theory with secure analytical foundations; the latter challenge the possibility and indeed the desirability of aspiring to create totalizing theories. Postmodernists contest the view of science as an autonomous sphere of knowledge and reflection. This volume brings together leading theorists in the social sciences and philosophy to debate the respective merits of modernism and postmodernism as paradigms of social inquiry. It examines the relation between science, critique and narrative, addressing questions about the moral and political meaning of science today.
Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Ritzer's long-awaited text in Postmodern Social Theory is a readable & coherent introduction to the fundamental ideas & most important thinkers in postmodern social theory.
Author : Krishan Kumar
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 1995-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780631185598
This lucid and insightful study of a crucial area of current debate covers the three theories of contemporary change: the information society, post-Fordism and postmodernity.
Author : Matthew Flisfeder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1501311808
Provides an introductory explanation of postmodernism and its connection to film theory, and how it can be used to interpret Ridley Scott’s film, Blade Runner.
