Postmodern Theory
Author: Steven Best
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1991-11-15
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1349217182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.
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Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory
Author: Carl A. Raschke
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0813933064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the academic study of religion has increased almost exponentially in the past fifty years, general theories of religion have been in significant decline. In his new book, Carl Raschke offers the first systematic exploration of how the postmodern philosophical theories of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek have contributed significantly to the development of a theory of religion as a whole. The bold paradigm he uses to articulate the framework for a revolution in religious theory comes from semiotics--namely, the problem of the sign and the "singularity" or "event horizon" from which a sign is generated.
Postmodern Management and Organization Theory
Author: David Boje
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 0803970056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This excellent, pioneering book is a must-read as we enter the new millennium." --David J. Farmer, State University of New York Comprehensive and timely, Postmodern Management and Organization Theory provides a critique of postmodern theory as it stands today. The text gives an overview of issues as they relate to management and organization theory and its history and assembles in one volume a variety of important works on postmodern philosophy--including feminist, cultural, and environmental philosophies. The contributors address the future of postmodern advancement in management and organization theory and method, establishing an agenda for future research. This thought-provoking book will be useful to scholars, researchers and upper-level students in organization theory, organization behavior and change, management, and industrial psychology.
Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times
Author: Marvin Harris
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780761990215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Marvin Harris presents his current views on the nature of culture addressing such issues as the mental/behavioral debate, emics and etics, and anthropological holism.
Max Weber and Postmodern Theory
Author: N. Gane
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-04-09
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0230502512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the contemporary nature of Max Weber's work by looking in detail at his key concepts of rationalization and disenchantment. Thematic parallels are drawn between Weber's rationalization thesis and the critiques of contemporary culture developed by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard. It is suggested that these three 'postmoden' thinkers develop and respond to Weber's analysis of modernity by pursuing radical strategies of affirmation and re-enchantment. Examining the work of these three key thinkers in this way casts new light both on postmodern theory and on Weber's sociology of rationalization.
Situational Analysis
Author: Adele E. Clarke
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2005-03-23
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0761930566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding an introduction to situational analysis, Adele E. Clarke outlines how this method differs from and is superior to grounded theory and to qualitative data analysis.
Postmodern Social Theory
Author: George Ritzer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRitzer's long-awaited text in Postmodern Social Theory is a readable & coherent introduction to the fundamental ideas & most important thinkers in postmodern social theory.
Postmodern Theory
Author: Steven Best
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780898624182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this timely volume, the authors systematically analyze postmodern theory to evaluate its relevance for critical social theory and radical politics today. Best and Kellner provide: * An introduction and critique of the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Laclau and Mouffe, and Jameson, which assess the varying contributions and limitations of postmodern theory * A discussion of postmodern feminist theory and the politics of identity * A systematic study of the origin of the discourse of the postmodern in historical, sociological, cultural, and philosophical studies. The authors claim that while postmodern theory provides insights into contemporary developments, it lacks adequate methodological and political perspectives to provide a critical social theory and radical politics for the present age.
Postmodernism and Social Theory
Author: Steven Seidman
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1992-04-08
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781557862846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new division has emerged in the social sciences between modernists and their post-modern critics. The former defend the project of a general theory with secure analytical foundations; the latter challenge the possibility and indeed the desirability of aspiring to create totalizing theories. Postmodernists contest the view of science as an autonomous sphere of knowledge and reflection. This volume brings together leading theorists in the social sciences and philosophy to debate the respective merits of modernism and postmodernism as paradigms of social inquiry. It examines the relation between science, critique and narrative, addressing questions about the moral and political meaning of science today.
From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society
Author: Krishan Kumar
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1995-10-05
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780631185598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lucid and insightful study of a crucial area of current debate covers the three theories of contemporary change: the information society, post-Fordism and postmodernity.
