Reconstructing Postmodernism: Critical Debates

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Nova Publishers, 2007 - Всего страниц: 200
There has been an array of literature on the notion of 'postmodernism' in social science literature in recent years. This exciting book focuses on three broad continuities: one, debunking the central theoretical tenets of postmodernism with reference to identity, methodology, governance and modernist theory; two, the book engages with current social issues and events in popular culture: for example, film; professional power, masculinity and terrorism; three, the book also rethinks postmodernism in light of under-researched variables of analysis of time and ageing, the 'body', 'biology' and 'choice'.

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SelfIdentity and Personhood in Social Analysis The Inadequacies of Postmodernism and Social Constructionism
3
Cognitive Relativism Between Positivistic and Relativistic Thinking in the Social Sciences
15
An Excursus in Postpostmodern Social Science
29
Postmodern Social Theory and Sociology On Symbolic Exchange with a Dead Theory
41
Postmodernism and the Constitution of the Social
59
The Postmodern Terrorist Risk Plus ÇA Change Plus Cest la Mẽme Chose
61
The Perils of Uncertainty Reflections on Theoretical Practice and Graduate Education
77
Masculinity as a Reproduction of Traditionalism Feminist Reaction and Egalitarianism
89
Film Postmodernism and the Sociological Imagination Exploring the Power of Local Stories in Southern Korea and Northern England
103
RETHINKING THE BOUNDARIES AND POSSIBILITIES OF POSTMODERNISM
123
Temporality and Old Age A Postmodern Critique
125
Understanding Aging Bodies A Postmodern Dialogue on BioMedicine Body and Cultural Representations of Identity
141
After Postmodernism Towards an Evolutionary Sociology
153
Disinterring postmodernism or a Critique on the Political Economy of Consumer Choice
167
Index
187
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Стр. 105 - In other words, schizophrenic experience is an experience of isolated, disconnected, discontinuous material signifiers which fail to link up into a coherent sequence. The schizophrenic thus does not know personal identity in our sense, since our feeling of identity depends on our sense of the persistence of the "I" and the "me
Стр. 66 - America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof— the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
Стр. 142 - Deep old age is personally and socially disturbing because it holds out the prospect of the loss of some or all of these controls. Degrees of loss impair the capacity to be counted as a competent adult. Indeed, the failure of bodily controls can point to a more general loss of self-image; to be ascribed the status of a competent adult person depends upon the capacity to control urine and faeces.
Стр. 144 - In the Penal Colony" inscribes itself unintelligibly on the flesh of the accused. The question is not: what meaning does that inscription carry within it, but what cultural apparatus arranges this meeting between instrument and body, what interventions into this ritualistic repetition are possible? The "real" and the "sexually factic" are phantasmatic constructions — illusions of substance — that bodies are compelled to approximate, but never can.

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Jason L. Powell (Associate Dean of Faculty, Coventry University, UK) and Sheying Chen (Pace University, New York, NY, USA)

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