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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
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Postmodernity USA : The Crisis of Social Modernism in Postwar America Theory, Culture & Society (Unnumbered)
author
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Woodiwiss, Anthony.
publisher
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Sage Publications, Inc.
isbn10 | asin
:
0803987889
print isbn13
:
9780803987883
ebook isbn13
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9780585356952
language
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English
subject
United States--Social conditions--1933-1945, United States--Social conditions--1945- , Marxian school of sociology, Postmodernism.
publication date
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1993
lcc
:
HN58.W66 1993eb
ddc
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973.9
subject
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United States--Social conditions--1933-1945, United States--Social conditions--1945- , Marxian school of sociology, Postmodernism.
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Postmodernity USA
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Theory, Culture & Society
Theory, Culture & Society caters for the resurgence of interest in culture within contemporary social science and the humanities. Building on the heritage of classical social theory, the book series examines ways in which this tradition has been reshaped by a new generation of theorists. It will also publish theoretically informed analyses of everyday life, popular culture, and new intellectual movements.
EDITOR: Mike Featherstone, University of Teesside
SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD Roy Boyne, University of Northumbria at Newcastle Mike Hepworth, University of Aberdeen Scott Lash, University of Lancaster Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh Bryan S. Turner, University of Essex
Also in this series
Global Culture Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity edited by Mike Featherstone
Talcott Parsons Theorist of Modernity edited by Roland Robertson and Bryan S. Turner
Images of Postmodern Society Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema Norman K. Denzin
Promotional Culture Advertising, Ideology and Symbolic Expression Andrew Wernick
Cultural Theory and Cultural Change edited by Mike Featherstone
Changing Cultures Feminism, Youth and Consumerism Mica Nava
Risk Society Towards a New Modernity Ulrich Beck
Max Weber and the Sociology of Culture Ralph Schroeder
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Postmodernity USA
The Crisis of Social Modernism in Postwar America
Anthony Woodiwiss
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Anthony Woodiwiss, 1993
First published 1993
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers.
SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Woodiwiss, Anthony Postmodernity USA: Crisis of Modernism in Postwar America. (Theory, Culture & Society Series) I. Title II. Series 973.9 ISBN 0-8039-8788-9 ISBN 0-8039-8789-7 pbk
Library of Congress catalog card number 93-083105
Typeset by Mayhew Typesetting, Rhayader, Powys Printed in Great Britain by the Cromwell Press Ltd, Broughton Gifford, Melksham, Wiltshire
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For Audrey, Roger and Frank With whom I began to think for myself
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