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:	9781000947083
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/09/2023
Series:	Social Futures
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	332 KB

About the Author

Barry Smart

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.