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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Univ of Minnesota Pr
Publication date March 1, 1999
Pages 131
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780816632268
ISBN-10 081663226X
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.75 by 9 in.
Weight 0.65 lbs.
Original list price $50.95
Other format details university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Postmodernity as idea, critique, cultural experience, and social condition has engendered a sometimes angry, sometimes anxious debate across many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. In Postmodernity, David Lyon provides a stimulating introduction to this contested concept and the discussions it provokes.

Lyon describes this multilayered notion that encompasses a variety of major social and cultural changes taking place at the end of the twentieth century. Among the key processes he examines:
-- rapid technological change
-- shifting political concerns
-- the rise of social movements
-- globalization

Lyon discusses modernity as a social-cultural entity and questions whether it and the monolithic edifice of Enlightenment rationality and progress are disintegrating. He concludes that a new sort of society is emerging, one structured around consumers and consumption rather than workers and production. This second edition delves more deeply into issues such as globalization and the new postmodern quest for ethics.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780335201457 Book cover for 9780816626120 Book cover for 9780816632268
 
The price comparison is for this edition
With Lyon David | from Univ of Minnesota Pr (March 1, 1999)
9780816632268 | details & prices | 131 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $50.95
About: Postmodernity as idea, critique, cultural experience, and social condition has engendered a sometimes angry, sometimes anxious debate across many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
With G‚rard De Montpellier, GeneviŠve Ol‚ron, Jean-fran‡ois Le Ny, C‚sar FlorŠs | 2nd edition from Open Univ Pr (February 1, 1999)
9780335201457 | details & prices | List price $69.95
This edition also contains Experimental Psychology: Its Scope and Method: IV Learning and Memory
About: Postmodernity as idea, critique, cultural experience, and social condition has engendered a sometimes angry, sometimes anxious debate across many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
from Univ of Minnesota Pr (November 1, 1994)
9780816626120 | details & prices | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $39.95
About: Postmodernity as idea, critique, cultural experience, and social condition has engendered a sometimes angry, sometimes anxious debate across many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780335201440 Book cover for 9780816626137 Book cover for 9780816632275
 
With Eun-Sook Kim (other contributor), Susan Blake (other contributor) | 2 edition from Univ of Minnesota Pr (March 1, 1999)
9780816632275 | details & prices | 160 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $22.50
About: In this edition, postmodernity is seen as the social condition of the 21st century, in which some features of the modern world are called into question, and undermined by novel trends.
2 edition from Open Univ Pr (February 1, 1999)
9780335201440 | details & prices | List price $33.95
from Univ of Minnesota Pr (November 1, 1994)
9780816626137 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $13.95
About: Postmodernity as idea, critique, cultural experience, and social condition has engendered a sometimes angry, sometimes anxious debate across many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.

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