Post-modernism and the social sciences: insights, inroads, and intrusions
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0691023476
ISBN 13
9780691023472
Category
Publication Year
1991
Publisher
Princeton University Press, United States
Pages
229
Subject
Postmodernism--Social aspects
Description
In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are today being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. Serving as neither an opponent nor an apologist for the movement, she cuts through post-modernism's often incomprehensible jargon in order to offer all readers a lucid exposition of its propositions. Rosenau shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields. In weighing its strengths and weaknesses, the author examines two major tendencies within post-modernism, the largely European, skeptical form and the predominantly Anglo-North-American form, which suggests alternative political, social, and cultural projects. --From Amazon
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1
