| Description |
x, 181 pages ; 24cm |
| Series |
Theory culture & society |
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Theory, culture & society series |
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Theory, culture & society.
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Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Part One: Finding Social Modernism -- New Deal Figurations -- The Society that Would be Modern -- A Modernizing Discourse -- Social Modernism and Class Relations -- Part Two: Forgetting Social Modernism -- The Return of the Referents -- The Vietnam War, Protest and Class Relations -- The Discourse of Forgetfulness -- Social (Post)modernism and Class Relations -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"In Postmodernity USA Anthony Woodiwiss re-examines the political, economic and social life of the United States over the past sixty years. Exploring the rise and fall of modernism as a social ideology, he offers a distinctive and original interpretation of the unique experience of American modernity and the arrival of postmodernity. The result is both a novel history of postwar America, and a significant contribution to the debate concerning postmodernity as a social and cultural condition." "Among the distinctive features of the book are a provocative and stimulating account of change in American society from the New Deal through the 1960s to the present day; a unique account of the dominant discourse of American society, how it has evolved and how it influences current social, political and economic life; a reappraisal of American postmodernity which recognizes it as a consequence of the contradictions and failures of modernity; and an examination of how the forgetting of social modernism is reflected in key instances of contemporary American political discourse, social science and popular culture." "This rigorous and challenging analysis of American postmodernity also carries lessons for the understanding of class, culture and politics in late industrial societies more generally. Offering an innovative synthesis of postmodernist and Marxist approaches, it will be essential reading for scholars and students as a key interdisciplinary text."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Social conditions |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 162-175. - Includes index |
| Subject |
Marxian school of sociology.
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Postmodernism.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140517
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140518
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140520
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140524
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United States -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511 -- 1981-2001
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140537
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| LC no. |
93083105 |
| ISBN |
0803987889 |
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0803987897 (paperback) |
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