Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies

ISBN-13: 9781138154247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str.

Barry Smart

Opis

In this accomplished, comprehensive and accessible book Barry Smart explores these questions. The book examines the social and economic processes which have shaped and continue to shape life today. It also provides exemplary critical assessments of the various modern' and postmodern' thinkers who have sought to explain these processes. Judicious in its judgements and superbly informed, the text is a major contribution to the debate on Modernity and Postmodernity.

Spis treści

Reflections on change; questions concerning technology and (post) industrial society; alternative futures; art, work and analysis in an age of electronic simulation; the postmodern paradox; marxism, culture and change.

O autorze

Barry Smart