Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity
- ISBN-10
- 0803983719
- ISBN-13
- 9780803983717
- Category
- Social Science / General
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Author
- Bryan S. Turner
Description
This book encapsulates the recent debate on the concepts of modernity and postmodernity. Arguments over modernism and its aftermath are traced to their origins in art, architecture and literature. The authors then focus on the contribution of sociology to this cultural dispute through the theories of Weber, Simmel, Habermas, Lyotard and Baudrillard.
Throughout, Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity demonstrates the connections between traditional problems of sociological theory and the contemporary debate around modernity.
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