Postmodernism is Not What You Think / Edition 2

by Charles C. Lemert

Overview

Highly readable and elegantly composed, this work clarifies the most malicious misconceptions of postmodernism by explaining why the postmodern is so emotionally and politically disturbing. Lemert shows that the postmodern is less a theory than a condition of social life brought about by the trouble into which modernity has gotten itself.

Globalization, the media and popular culture, identity politics, the science wars, politics and cultural studies, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the new sociologies are put in lucid perspective as signs of the new social formations dawning at the end of the modern age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901594511539
Publication date:	08/15/2005
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

Part I Disturbances; Chapter 1 Beasts, Frogs, Freaks, and Other Postmodern Things; Chapter 2 Postmodernism Is Not What You Think; Chapter 3 An Impossible Glossary of Social Reality; Part II Beginnings; Chapter 4 The Politics of Language: Rethinking Europe; Chapter 5 Structuralism’s Zero Signifier: Letters from Brazil; Chapter 6 The Uses of French Structuralisms: Reconsidering Vietnam; Part III Questions; Chapter 7 In the Imperial Silence, Will the Subaltern Ever Shut Up?; Chapter 8 On an Ironic Globe, What Does It Mean To Be Serious?; Chapter 9 If There Is a Global We, Might We All Be Dispossessed?;

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the First Edition

"Charles Lemert is one of the most thoughtful and interesting of sociology's postmodernists. He recurrently finds new angles of vision and is especially helpful for overcoming the pernicious opposition of 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives."
-Craig Calhoun, New York University

"Charles Lemert is the preeminent social theorist in America today. Writing from a space that only he can occupy, Lemert shows the sociological community how to embrace and learn from this thing called postmodernism."
-Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Charles Lemert invites imaginative cultural inquiry into both the discipline of sociology and the transdisciplinary practice of social theory in an era where global changes in politics, knowledge production, and technology make trust in reality itself open to discussion."
-Stephen Pfohl, Boston College

From the Publisher