Condition of Postmodernity An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change

Name: Condition of Postmodernity An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
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ISBN: 9780631162940

ISBN-10: 0631162941

ISBN-13: 9780631162940

Edition: 1990

Authors: David Harvey

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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, 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…

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List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/8/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

David Harvey received a Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in geography from Cambridge University. After graduating in 1961, he joined the geography department at Bristol University as a lecturer. In the following years, he held teaching positions at Johns Hopkins and Oxford universities. He has written numerous books including Justice Nature and the Geography of Differences, The Urban Experience, The Condition of Postmodernity, and An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. He has received many honors, among them the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers, the Anders Retzuis Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, and the Vautrin Lud… International Geography Prize.



The argument


Preface


Acknowledgements



The Passage from Modernity to Postmodernity in Contemporary Culture



Introduction



Modernity and Modernism



Postmodernism



Postmodernism in the City: Architecture and Urban Design



Modernization



POSTmodernISM or postMODERNism?



The Political-Economic Transformation of late Twentieth-Century Capitalism



Introduction



Fordism



From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation



Theorizing the Transition



Flexible Accumulation - Solid Transformation or Temporary Fix?



The Experience of Space and Time



Introduction



Individual Spaces and Times in Social Life



Time and Space as Sources of Social Power



The Time and Space of the Enlightenment Project



Time-space Compression and the Rise of Modernism as a Cultural Force



Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition



Time and Space in the Postmodern Cinema



The Condition of Postmodernity



Postmodernity as a Historical Condition



Economics with Mirrors



Postmodernism as the Mirror of Mirrors



Fordist Modernism versus Flexible Postmodernism, or the Interpenetration of Opposed Tendencies in Capitalism as a Whole



The Transformative and Speculative Logic of Capital



The Work of Art in an Age of Electronic Reproduction and Image Banks



Responses to Time-Space Compression



The Crisis of Historical Materialism



Cracks in the Mirrors, Fusions at the Edges


References


Index