Modernity and Postmodernity
Subtitle: Knowledge, Power and the Self
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: June 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780761959045
Subjects: Anthropology; Modernism; Social theory; Sociology; Social Science; Sociology - General; Methodology; Sociology - Social Theory; Social Science / Sociology / General; Postmodernism; Philosophy; Social aspects; Social sciences
First sentence: In this chapter my aim is to outline some of the classical discourses of modernity in order to provide a foundation for the subsequent chapters, where the focus is more on the debates of the second half of the twentieth century when 'organized modernity' - the Enlightenment construction of modernity-entered into its final phase of crisis.