Critic of Postmodern Ideology

The study focuses on the analysis of principle post-modern theories, on their major scholar, such as Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Francois Lyotard- and their correlation with social theory. The work is twofold : traditional critic of ideology as sociology of lie on the one hand, sociology of knowledge as sociology of truth on the other. The first deals with constitutive assumptions of Marxism, the second takes a critic about relation between economic liberalism and post-modern thinking. Through Habermas and the idea of modernity as unfinished historical project I see in No-global social movements the claim of an active role of ideologies.

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Irene Strazzeri is Researcher in Sociology of knowledge at the Department of Human Sciences, Foggia University. She has obtained her PhD from Sapienza University of Rome and has also studied at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Her recent work explores the possible implications of the theory of recognition for global justice and human rights.