Between Totalitarianism and Postmodernity: A Thesis Eleven Reader

By Peter Beiharz

These 13 articles - by such writers as Cornelius Castoriadis, Zygmunt Bauman, Ferenc Feher, Agnes Heller, and Axel Honneth - provide theoretical and historically informed analyses of the powerful currents that are shaping the late 20th century political and cultural landscape. They offer insights into the political and philosophical issues stemming from the fall of communism, the troubles of social democracy, and the rise of postmodernism. The reader is arranged in two parts: the first focuses on the current political crises of postcommunist societies and social democracy, while the second takes up the contemporary quarrel between the moderns and the postmoderns.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262521792
• ISBN13: 9780262521796
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 0.6" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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Politics of Modernity

From the editors of the international social theory journal, the collection provides stimulating and tough-minded analyses of the dilemmas of socialism and liberalism, the collapse of communism, and the vagaries of contemporary democracy alongside strong contributions from prominent contemporary social theorists reflecting on the past and future of modernity. Intelligent and energetic writing.