Full name: The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change

Author: David Harvey Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Non Fiction, History, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780631162940 0631162941

A great deal has been written on what has variously been described as the postmodern condition and on postmodern culture, architecture, art and society. 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. 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 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 postmodernity, but as an incisive contribution to the history of ideas and their relation to social and political change. Similar books: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson Cultural Turn by Fredric Jameson The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom Non-Violent Resistance by Mahatma Gandhi Democratic Enlightenment by Jonathan I. Israel The Treason of the Intellectuals by Julien Benda The Opium of the Intellectuals by Raymond Aron Selections from the Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse Man and Technics by Oswald Spengler The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays by E. P. Thompson Political Philosophy by David Miller Statism and Anarchy by Mikhail Bakunin Paris, Capital of Modernity by David Harvey The End Of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama Identity and Violence by Amartya Sen The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton