Postmodernism Is Not What You Think (Twentieth-Century Social Theory)

By Charles Lemert

Book Overview

This study aims to demolish the most malicious misconceptions of the subject of postmodernism by explaining why it is so emotionally and politically disturbing. It shows that postmodernism is less a theory than a condition of social life brought about by the trouble modernity has got itself into.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557860823
• ISBN13: 9781557860828
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"