Modernity and Postmodern Culture (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies) - Softcover

McGuigan, Jim

9780335199150: Modernity and Postmodern Culture (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335199151 ISBN 13: 9780335199150

Publisher: Open Univ Pr, 1999

This is a critical introduction to claims concerning the postmodernization of culture and society. The theories of Baudrillard, Beck, Castells, Giddens, Habermas, Haraway, Jameson, Lyotard and others on the contemporary scene are discussed and specific issues concerning arthitecture, theme parks, screen culture, science, technology and the environment are examined. Jim McGuigan argues that there have been tensions between instrumental and critical reason throughout the history of modernity that are still being played out. He questions the irrationalist tendencies and, also, the accommodative attitude to prevailing conditions of much postmodern thought, and insists upon the enduring relevance of the Enlightenment tradition to social and cultural analysis.

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About the Author:

Jim McGuigan is a sociologist of culture at Loughborough University. His other books include Cultural Populism (1992), Culture and the Public Sphere (1996), Studying Culture (1993, 1997), Cultural Methodologies (1997) and Technocities (1999). He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Cultural Policy and Keywords - A Journal of Cultural Materialism.

Review:

"This powerful book makes many of its points through the use of case studies and examples...Rarely, if ever, has discussion of so wide a variety of approaches to learning been gathered together in a single volume" - British Journal of Educational Technology.

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