Identity crises : a social critique of postmodernity / Robert G. Dunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunn, Robert G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though the term "postmodern" looms large on our cultural landscape, rarely do we find a systematic and impartial discussion of the circumstances of its ascendance. Identity Crises offers just such an accounting. In this book, Robert G. Dunn situates the intellectual currency of "the postmodern" within the larger context of social and cultural change shaping the movement over the past several decades.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Regrounding Theory: The Social Relations of Identity and Difference; 2 Modernity and Postmodernity: Transformations in Identity Formation; 3 On the Transition from Modernity to Postmodernity: Transformations in Culture; 4 Explaining the Destabilization of Identity: Postmodernization, Commodification, and the Leveling of Cultural Hierarchy; 5 Identity, Politics, and the Dual Logic of Postmodernity: Fragmentation and Pluralization; 6 Redeeming the Subject: Poststructuralism, Meadian Social Pragmatism, and the Turn to Intersubjectivity

Conclusion: Postmodernity and Its Theoretical ConsequencesNotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8876-1

OCLC:

476094457