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Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies (Paperback, New)
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Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies (Paperback, New)
Series: Social Futures
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Barry Smart offers a coherent and readable discussion of the
central aspects of social, cultural, economic, technological and
political processes which are transforming everyday life. Specific
issues examined include the effect of information technology on
social life, transformations in the capitalist mode of production,
conceptions of possible alternative post-industrial' social
futures, and the impact of modern media and communications on forms
of human sensibility. Smart explores the theoretical responses to
these developments from social thinkers like Talcott Parsons,
Daniel Bell, Alvin Toffler, Andre Gorz, Marshall McLuhan, Walter
Benjamin, Jean Baudrillard, Jurgen Habermas, Marshall Berman, Jean
Lyotard, Frederic Jameson and David Harvey. The unifying theme of
the discussion is modernity and its consequences, the growing
uncertainty about the project of modernity' and the possibility
that we are witnessing the development of postmodern conditions.
The author provides an account of what we mean by "modernity" and
"postmodernity" and concludes with a chapter on the connections
between postmodernism and Marxism. This book should be of interest
to students of sociology and cul
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