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The Condition of Postmodernity
An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
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In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.
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A great deal has been written on what has variously been described as the post-modern condition and on post-modern culture, architecture, art and society. In this new book, The Condition of Postmodernity, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.
But the book is much more than this: in the course of his investigation, the author provides a social and semantic history—from the Enlightenment to the present—of modernism and its expression in political and social ideas and movements, as well as in art, literature and architecture. He considers in particular how the meaning and perception of time and space themselves vary over time and space, and shows that this variance affects individual values and social processes of the most fundamental kind.
This book will be widely welcomed, not only for its clear and critical account of the arguments surrounding the propositions of modernity and post-modernity, but as an incisive contribution to the history of ideas and their relation to social and political change.
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The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey is praised for its insightful and explosive analysis of contemporary cultural theory, weaving together social and economic aspects of postmodernism. Reviewers commend Harvey for his ability to make complex theories accessible and to challenge prevailing critiques with depth and ambition. The book is celebrated as a comprehensive and readable work that reveals connections often overlooked in academic discourse.
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ISBN: 9780631162940
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 October 1991
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 590g
Pages: 392
About the Author
David Harvey is Professor of Geography at the Johns Hopkins University. From 1987 to 1993 he held the Halford Mackinder Chair of Geography at Oxford University. His previous books include Social Justice and the City, The Limits to Capital (available in the USA from the University of Chicago Press, and elsewhere from Blackwell Publishers, UK) and The Urban Experience (available in the USA from the Johns University Press, and elsewhere from Blackwell Publishers, UK).
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