Intimations of Postmodernity

This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity.

Informationen zum Autor Zygmunt Bauman Klappentext This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity. Zusammenfassung This thoughtful and illuminating book provides a major statement on the meaning and importance of postmodernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, 1. LEGISLATORS AND INTERPRETERS: CULTURE AS THE IDEOLOGY OF INTELLECTUALS, 2. SOCIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO POSTMODERNITY, 3. THE CHANGING DISCURSIVE FORMATION OF SOCIOLOGY, 4. IS THERE A POSTMODERN SOCIOLOGY?, 5. PHILOSOPHICAL AFFINITIES OF POSTMODERN SOCIOLOGY, 6. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JEAN BAUDRILLARD, 7. COMMUNISM: A POSTMORTEM, 8. LIVING WITHOUT AN ALTERNATIVE, 9. A SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF POSTMODERNITY, Appendix, Index

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Zygmunt Bauman

Inhalt
Introduction, 1. LEGISLATORS AND INTERPRETERS: CULTURE AS THE IDEOLOGY OF INTELLECTUALS, 2. SOCIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO POSTMODERNITY, 3. THE CHANGING DISCURSIVE FORMATION OF SOCIOLOGY, 4. IS THERE A POSTMODERN SOCIOLOGY?, 5. PHILOSOPHICAL AFFINITIES OF POSTMODERN SOCIOLOGY, 6. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JEAN BAUDRILLARD, 7. COMMUNISM: A POSTMORTEM, 8. LIVING WITHOUT AN ALTERNATIVE, 9. A SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF POSTMODERNITY, Appendix, Index