Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World
Published on 1. May 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7486-0779-2 (ISBN)
Description
This introductory guide surveys the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug and explains their analyses of current topics such as consumer identity and commodity aesthetics; post-colonial criticism; identity and narrative; and the general condition of postmodernity.
Reviews / Votes
An indispensable guide to those interested in identity though it use will go beyond this. -- Dave Merryweather An indispensable guide to those interested in identity though it use will go beyond this.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-0779-2 (9780748607792)
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Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World
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06/2021
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Content
Beginning and the end. An introduction - writing the self; the home, the journey and the border; identity and narrative; identity and the unconscious; identity and difference; Foucault - discipline and the self; Foucault - sex and the technologies of the self; the conditions of postmodernity; from Marxism to postmodernism; consumer identity and commodity aesthetics; national identity - "Englishness" and education; race, ethnicity and nationness; culture, imperialism and identity.