Postmodernity USA: The Crisis of Social Modernism in Postwar America: 21 (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

by Anthony Woodiwiss (Author), Anthony Woodiwiss (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $69.33

  In this rigorous and challenging analysis of American postmodernity, Anthony Woodiwiss re-examines the political, economic and social life of the United States over the past 60 years. Exploring the rise and fall of modernism as a social ideology, he offers a distinctive and original interpretation of the unique experience of American modernity and the arrival of the postmodern world. The result is both a novel history of postwar America and a significant contribution to the idea of postmodernism as a social and cultural form. Postmodernity USA also carries lessons for the understanding of class, culture and politics in late industrial societies in general. Offering an innovative synthesis of postmodernist and Marxist approaches it will be essential reading for scholars and students as a key interdisciplinary text.