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Author : Steven Best
Release : 1991-11-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Theory by : Steven Best
Download or read book Postmodern Theory written by Steven Best. This book was released on 1991-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.
Author : Krishan Kumar
Release : 1995-10-05
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 598/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society by : Krishan Kumar
Download or read book From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society written by Krishan Kumar. This book was released on 1995-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lucid and insightful study of a crucial area of current debate covers the three theories of contemporary change: the information society, post-Fordism and postmodernity.
Author : Steven Best
Release : 1991-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 182/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Postmodern Theory by : Steven Best
Download or read book Postmodern Theory written by Steven Best. This book was released on 1991-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely volume, the authors systematically analyze postmodern theory to evaluate its relevance for critical social theory and radical politics today. Best and Kellner provide: * An introduction and critique of the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Laclau and Mouffe, and Jameson, which assess the varying contributions and limitations of postmodern theory * A discussion of postmodern feminist theory and the politics of identity * A systematic study of the origin of the discourse of the postmodern in historical, sociological, cultural, and philosophical studies. The authors claim that while postmodern theory provides insights into contemporary developments, it lacks adequate methodological and political perspectives to provide a critical social theory and radical politics for the present age.
Author : Matthew Flisfeder
Release : 2017-04-06
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 808/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner by : Matthew Flisfeder
Download or read book Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner written by Matthew Flisfeder. This book was released on 2017-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introductory explanation of postmodernism and its connection to film theory, and how it can be used to interpret Ridley Scott’s film, Blade Runner.
Author : Marta B. Calás
Release : 2018-12-24
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Management Theory by : Marta B. Calás
Download or read book Postmodern Management Theory written by Marta B. Calás. This book was released on 2018-12-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume asks: when was ‘The Postmodern’ in the History of Management Thought? Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich have chosen this subtitle as entry point to the collection for several reasons. The first, and most evident, is that it prompts us to reflect on the inclusion of a volume on postmodern organization studies within a series of books on the history of management thought. What does such inclusion signal? Are we saying that we are past the postmodern in organization studies? That we have transcended modernity and, beyond, postmodernity? Similar to other social sciences, organization and management studies in the Anglo-American and European academy became impressed by the styles of ‘postmodernism’ and their epistemological companions, ‘poststructuralisms’, during the 1980s. For this collection we have selected twenty two journal articles, published between 1985 and 1996, that we consider emblematic of postmodern endeavours in management thought, as they further our understanding of how ‘truth’ (of any paradigmatic persuasion), is fashioned through particular discourses and other signifying practices. Taken together, these articles address the following questions: What has the field accomplished through attempts at being postmodern? With what consequences? And, where does the field stand now, if it is still/already (going) after ‘the postmodern’? In our view ‘the postmodern’ cannot transcend modern management thought; it is, rather, part of it. Nevertheless, the mere appearance of efforts towards making the field ‘postmodern’ makes it important to account for them in the history of the field. Such is the narrative that we are trying to portray in this volume.
