A readable analysis of postmodernity that provides a cultural
context for its rise.
Though the term "postmodern" looms large on our cultural
landscape, rarely do we find a systematic and impartial discussion
of the circumstances of its ascendance. Identity Crises offers just
such an accounting. In this book, Robert G. Dunn situates the
intellectual currency of "the postmodern" within the larger context
of social and cultural change shaping the movement over the past
several decades. Along the way, he offers a necessary corrective to
both the sociological and historical shortcomings of cultural
criticism and the cultural myopia of social science in considering
the postmodern world.
Dunn explains contemporary culture and contemporary cultural
criticism as part of a distinct historical moment, one that entails
new social relations as a consequence of new means of production.
In place of prevailing cultural and political constructions, Dunn
proposes a "social relational" approach that explicitly recognizes
the structural and situational contexts of identity formation. He
conceptualizes issues of identity and difference in terms of
social, cultural, and political transformations in the transition
from modern to postmodern society.
This provides a socio-historical perspective through which to
consider the impact of consumption, mass media, globalization, and
new social movements on identity-forming processes.
Unique to this undertaking and crucial to Dunn's critique of
poststructuralist and postmodern theories is his application of the
theory of George Herbert Mead as a more effective means of
theorizing identity and difference. Dunn's focus on postmodernity
as opposed topostmodernism serves to ground the analysis of
identity and difference materially and socially.
Learned, evenhanded, and enlightening, Identity Crises is an
essential demonstration of the connections between cultural theory
and criticism, contemporary culture, and sociological analysis.
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