{"product_id":"the-condition-of-postmodernity-an-enquiry-into-the-origins-of-cultural-change-paperback-softback-9780631162940","title":"The Condition of Postmodernity; An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (Paperback \/ softback) 9780631162940","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Condition of Postmodernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Harvey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631162940, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 October 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e392 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Devastating. The most brilliant study of post-modernity to date. David Harvey cuts beneath the theoretical debates about postmodernist culture to reveal the social and economic basis of this apparently free-floating phenomenon. After reading this book, those who fashionably scorn the idea of a 'total' critique had better think again.\" \u003ci\u003eTerry Eagleton\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Few people have penetrated the heartland of contemporary cultural theory and critique as explosively or insightfully as David Harvey.\" \u003ci\u003eEdward Soja\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"David Harvey's book is probably the best yet written on the link between ... economic and cultural transformations.\" \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"David Harvey's engrossing book is probably the most readable, ambitious, and intelligent work on postmodernism yet published.\" \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In Harvey's skilful hands various strands of contemporary life, normally held far apart by specialized scholarly interests, come together again and are shown to fit with each other ... a marvellous, enjoyable and mind-opening book.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe argument. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Passage from Modernity to Postmodernity in Contemporary Culture:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Modernity and Modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Postmodernism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Postmodernism in the City: Architecture and Urban Design.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Modernization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. POSTmodernISM or postMODERNism?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Political-Economic Transformation of late Twentieth-Century Capitalism:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Fordism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Theorizing the Transition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Flexible Accumulation - Solid Transformation or Temporary Fix?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Experience of Space and Time:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Individual Spaces and Times in Social Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Time and Space as Sources of Social Power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Time and Space of the Enlightenment Project.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Time-space Compression and the Rise of Modernism as a Cultural Force.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Time and Space in the Postmodern Cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Condition of Postmodernity:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Postmodernity as a Historical Condition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Economics with Mirrors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Postmodernism as the Mirror of Mirrors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Fordist Modernism versus Flexible Postmodernism, or the Interpenetration of Opposed Tendencies in Capitalism as a Whole.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. The Transformative and Speculative Logic of Capital.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. The Work of Art in an Age of Electronic Reproduction and Image Banks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Responses to Time-Space Compression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. The Crisis of Historical Materialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Cracks in the Mirrors, Fusions at the Edges.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453593743640,"sku":"9780631162940","price":25.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631162940.jpg?v=1785287351","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-condition-of-postmodernity-an-enquiry-into-the-origins-of-cultural-change-paperback-softback-9780631162940","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}