num_pages: 192
description: In this rigorous and challenging analysis of American postmodernity, Anthony Woodiwiss re-examines the political, economic and social life of the United States over the past 60 years. Exploring the rise and fall of modernism as a social ideology, he offers a distinctive and original interpretation of the unique experience of American modernity and the arrival of the postmodern world. The result is both a novel history of postwar America and a significant contribution to the idea of postmodernism as a social and cultural form. Postmodernity USA also carries lessons for the understanding of class, culture and politics in late industrial societies in general. Offering an innovative synthesis of postmodernist and Marxist approache
language: English
title: Postmodernity USA: The Crisis of Social Modernism in Postwar America
titlecomplete: Postmodernity USA: The Crisis of Social Modernism in Postwar America (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd