Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies

by Barry Smart

Overview

In this accomplished, comprehensive and accessible book Barry Smart explores these questions. The book examines the social and economic processes which have shaped and continue to shape life today. It also provides exemplary critical assessments of the various ‘modern' and ‘postmodern' thinkers who have sought to explain these processes. Judicious in its judgements and superbly informed, the text is a major contribution to the debate on Modernity and Postmodernity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415069526
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/05/1991
Series:	Social Futures
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Reflections on change; questions concerning technology and (post) industrial society; alternative futures; art, work and analysis in an age of electronic simulation; the postmodern paradox; marxism, culture and change.