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Ward, Steven Craig.

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Postmodernism as the sociocultural deconstruction of modernity.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Postmodernism as the sociocultural deconstruction of modernity./
Author:	Ward, Steven Craig.
Description:	370 p.
Notes:	Director: Bud B. Khleif.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International52-05A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9131300

Postmodernism as the sociocultural deconstruction of modernity.
Ward, Steven Craig.

Postmodernism as the sociocultural deconstruction of modernity. - 370 p.

Director: Bud B. Khleif.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Hampshire, 1991.

This work seeks to provide a description of the theoretical positions and cultural expressions of postmodernism and to provide a sociological critique of its conclusions. The work uses the writings of the Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Lacan, and Baudrillard, as well as arguments in neo-pop art and postmodern architecture, as representatives of the postmodern position on the issues of referentiality, subjectivity, and rationality. Postmodernism is treated as a skeptical theoretical and cultural system which levels all ideational distinctions between belief and knowledge and truth and rhetoric. This work argues that a social or constructivist epistemology can provide a different way of approaching the issues of knowledge and truth, which avoids postmodernism's skeptical and nihilistic conclusions. Postmodernism is seen as making sociological arguments against traditional philosophical distinctions, but drawing idealistic conclusions about the end of all meaning. Using the Neo-Durkheimians orientation towards cognitive style and the constructivist position in the sociology of scientific knowledge as starting points, it is argued that while pure philosophical distinctions between true and false and knowledge and belief cannot be made, these distinctions remain strong and powerful social distinctions. These distinctions serve to foster group cohesion and identity. Finally, this work examines how postmodernism can be seen as the outcome of the social organization of specific culture-producing and culture-consuming groups in contemporary society.Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

Postmodernism as the sociocultural deconstruction of modernity.
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