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Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World ISBN: 074860779X ISBN13: 9780748607792 Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World By: Madan Sarup Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Format: Paperback Our Price: 17.21 Discount: 18% RRP: 20.99

This introductory guide surveys the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug and explains their analyses of current topics such as consumer identity and commodity aesthetics; post-colonial criticism; identity and narrative; and the general condition of postmodernity.


Contents:

Beginning and the end

An introduction - writing the self
- the home, the journey and the border
- identity and narrative
- identity and the unconscious
- identity and difference
- Foucault - discipline and the self
- Foucault - sex and the technologies of the self
- the conditions of postmodernity
- from Marxism to postmodernism
- consumer identity and commodity aesthetics
- national identity - Englishness and education
- race, ethnicity and nationness
- culture, imperialism and identity.


Brief Description:

This introductory guide surveys the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug and explains their analyses of current topics.

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