Modern Conditions, Postmodern ControversiesTaylor & Francis, 2023 M05 9 - 240 páginas In this accomplished, comprehensive and accessible book Barry Smart explores these questions. The book examines the social and economic processes which have shaped and continue to shape life today. It also provides exemplary critical assessments of the various `modern' and `postmodern' thinkers who have sought to explain these processes. Judicious in its judgements and superbly informed, the text is a major contribution to the debate on Modernity and Postmodernity. |
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| 1948 | |
QUESTIONS CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY AND POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY | 1969 |
ALTERNATIVE FUTURES | 1989 |
ART WORK AND ANALYSIS IN AN AGE OF ELECTRONIC SIMULATION | |
THE POSTMODERN PARADOX | |
MARXISM AND POSTMODERNISM | |
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