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Facing postmodernity : contemporary French thought on culture and society / Max Silverman.

By: Silverman, Maxim.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Routledge social futures series: Publisher: London : Routledge, 1999Description: viii,198p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780415128933; 0415128943; 9780415128940.Subject(s): Postmodernism -- France | Society | Sociology | Cultural studies | Modern philosophy: since c 1800 | Anthropology | France -- Civilization -- 1945- | France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 194 SIL Summary: Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today. In doing so, it addresses the questions central to the postmodern debate whatever country it takes place in.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Facing Postmodernityexplains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as:
* the breaking of the city
* racism
* the crisis of culture
* new citizenship.
It discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers, both the very well known -Lyotard, Levinas, Derrida - and those who will be less familiar to a non-French audience. In doing so, it addresses the questions central to the postmodern debate whatever country it takes place in; questions of history, of representation, identity and community.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today. In doing so, it addresses the questions central to the postmodern debate whatever country it takes place in.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. ix)
  • Introduction: The unmaking of modern France (p. 1)
  • 1 In the shadow of the Holocaust (p. 10)
  • The Holocaust rediscovered (p. 10)
  • 'Jews', 'Greeks' and the decline of the West (p. 13)
  • Jews and poets (p. 24)
  • History, memory, representation (p. 28)
  • New ethics, new dangers (p. 38)
  • 2 New racisms (p. 40)
  • Modern 'logics' of racism (p. 40)
  • Culture, difference and identity (p. 44)
  • The 'ends' of anti-racism (p. 57)
  • 3 City spaces (p. 66)
  • The modern city (p. 66)
  • From time to space, from the social to the aesthetic (p. 72)
  • Encounters in the city (p. 86)
  • Making connections (p. 91)
  • 4 Cultural debates (p. 96)
  • From Culture to le culturel (p. 96)
  • Culture and society (p. 102)
  • The 'democratization' of the image (p. 108)
  • Culture, counter-culture and intellectuals (p. 117)
  • 5 Citizens all? (p. 128)
  • Utopian citizenship (p. 128)
  • The revenge of civil society (p. 134)
  • The end of the social? (p. 142)
  • Conclusion: Millennium talk (p. 154)
  • Notes (p. 161)
  • Bibliography (p. 175)
  • Index (p. 191)