Postmodernity USA

"In Postmodernity USA Anthony Woodiwiss re-examines the political, economic and social life of the United States over the past sixty 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 postmodernity. The result is both a novel history of postwar America, and a significant contribution to the debate concerning postmodernity as a social and cultural condition."--BOOK JACKET. "Among the distinctive features of the book are a provocative and stimulating account of change in American society from the New Deal through the 1960s to the present day; a unique account of the dominant discourse of American society, how it has evolved and how it influences current social, political and economic life; a reappraisal of American postmodernity which recognizes it as a consequence of the contradictions and failures of modernity; and an examination of how the forgetting of social modernism is reflected in key instances of contemporary American political discourse, social science and popular culture."--BOOK JACKET. "This rigorous and challenging analysis of American postmodernity also carries lessons for the understanding of class, culture and politics in late industrial societies more generally. Offering an innovative synthesis of postmodernist and Marxist approaches, it will be essential reading for scholars and students as a key interdisciplinary text."--BOOK JACKET.

Year

1993

Language

English

Publisher

SAGE Publications, Limited

Editions

2

Pages

192

ISBN

9781848609839

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