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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`Worried by the apolitical turn that I saw inherent in postmodernism's (potential) relativism, I was heartened by this reading... as my guide to travels in hyperspace, I carried Turner's book... a timely contribution to the burgeoning debate about modernity and postmodernity... the collection is a valuable attempt to shed light on debates that too often are written in an exclusive language. It brings together and draws out many of the central arguments in an expanding and disparate debate - the editor is to be congratulated for achieving this aim' - The Sociological Review
`This is an exciting and provocative series of essays on the topics of modernity and postmodernity... the essays are of high quality and contain fresh thinking on topics of intense contemporary interest. Anyone wishing to become familiar with key issues in social theory today should read these essays' - Douglas Kellner
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Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: DEFINING POSTMODERNITY
Modernity and Postmodernity - Bryan S Turner
Modernity, Postmodernity and the Present - Barry Smart
PART TWO: NOSTALGIA AND MODERNITY
Reading Wall Street - Norman K Denzin
Postmodern Contradictions in the American Social Structure
After Nostalgia? Wilful Nostalgia and the Phases of Globalization - Roland Robertson
Postmodernism as Humanism? Urban Space and Social Theory - Scott Lash
Simmel and the Theory of Postmodern Society - Deena Weinstein and Michael A Weinstein
PART THREE: CRITICAL THEORY AND THE MODERN PROJECT
Habermas and the Completion of `The Project of Modernity' - David Ashley
Lyotard and Weber - Charles Turner
Postmodern Rules and Neo-Kantian Values
PART FOUR: POLITICS, WOMEN AND POSTMODERNITY
Women between Fundamentalism and Modernity - Ayseg[um]ul Baykan
Women between Modernity and Postmodernity - Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen
Citizenship in the Semiotic Society - Philip Wexler
