Intimations of Postmodernity / Edition 1

by Zygmunt Bauman

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415067508
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/05/1991
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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