Modernity, Postmodernism Social Theory: Interpretation and Critique

Author: Xie Lizhong
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book is a systematically comprehensive introduction and critique of Western theories on modernity and postmodernity. In addition to the Western thinkers commonly covered in domestic publications on the same topic, such as Derrida, Rorty, Lacan, Foucault, Habermas, Bell, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Jameson, and Giddens, this book also introduces and critiques scholars like Rush, Bauman, and Harvey, many of whom are prominent contemporary thinkers rarely covered in domestic works on the same theme. Notably, the introduction and critique of Bauman in this book are the most comprehensive and systematic to date among domestic publications on the same topic.