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Part 1 Introduction - defining postmodernity: modernity and postmodernity, Bryan S.Turner modernity, postmodernity and the present, Barry Smart. Part 2 Nostalgia and modernity: reading Wall Street - postmodern contradictions in the American social structure, Norman K.Denzin after nostalgia? wilful nostalgia and the phase of globalization, Roland Robertson postmoderism as humanism? urban space and social theory, Scott Las Simmel and the theory of postmodern society, Deena Weinstein and Michael A.Weinstein. Part 2 Critical theory and the modern project: Habermas and the completion of The Project of Modernity, David Ashley Lyotard and Weber - postmodern rules and neo-Kantian values, Charles Turner towards a reinterpretation of modernity in an age of postmodernity, Adam B.Seligman. Part 3 Politics, women and postmodernity: women between fundamentalism and modernity, Aysegul Baykan women between modernity and postmodernity, Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen citizenship in the semiotic society, Philip Wexler.
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