Postmodernism and Society

✍ Scribed by Roy Boyne, Ali Rattansi (eds.)

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Year: 1990
Tongue: English
Leaves: 309
Series: Communications and Culture
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
The Theory and Politics of Postmodernism: By Way of an Introduction....Pages 1-45
The End of Radical Social Theory? Radicalism, Modernism and Postmodernism....Pages 46-75
Postmodernism and Language....Pages 76-96
Reactionary Postmodernism?....Pages 97-118
Lost in the Funhouse: Baudrillard and the Politics of Postmodernism....Pages 119-153
Feminism and Postmodernism....Pages 154-186
Postmodern Theory and Feminist Art Practice....Pages 187-208
These New Components of the Spectacle: Fashion and Postmodernism....Pages 209-236
Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A Question of Ends....Pages 237-259
Architectural Postmodernism: The Retreat of an Avant-Garde?....Pages 260-289
Back Matter....Pages 290-301

✦ Subjects

Intellectual Studies;Feminism;Postmodern Philosophy

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