TY - BOOK ID - 77888116 TI - Facing postmodernity : contemporary French thought on culture and society PY - 1999 SN - 0203003357 1280110279 1134795106 9786610110278 9780203003350 9780415128933 0415128935 9780415128940 0415128943 9781134795109 0415128935 0415128943 9781280110276 6610110271 9781134795055 9781134795093 1134795092 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Postmodernism KW - Post-modernism KW - Postmodernism (Philosophy) KW - Arts, Modern KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Post-postmodernism KW - France KW - Bro-C'hall KW - Fa-kuo KW - Fa-lan-hsi KW - Faguo KW - Falanxi KW - Falanxi Gongheguo KW - Faransā KW - Farānsah KW - França KW - Francia (Republic) KW - Francija KW - Francja KW - Francland KW - Francuska KW - Franis KW - Franḳraykh KW - Frankreich KW - Frankrig KW - Frankrijk KW - Frankrike KW - Frankryk KW - Fransa KW - Fransa Respublikası KW - Franse KW - Franse Republiek KW - Frant︠s︡ KW - Frant︠s︡ Uls KW - Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ KW - Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika KW - Frantsyi︠a︡ KW - Franza KW - French Republic KW - Frencisc Cynewīse KW - Frenska republika KW - Furansu KW - Furansu Kyōwakoku KW - Gallia KW - Gallia (Republic) KW - Gallikē Dēmokratia KW - Hyãsia KW - Parancis KW - Peurancih KW - Phransiya KW - Pransiya KW - Pransya KW - Prantsusmaa KW - Pʻŭrangsŭ KW - Ranska KW - República Francesa KW - Republica Franzesa KW - Republika Francuska KW - Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit KW - Republikang Pranses KW - République française KW - Tsarfat KW - Tsorfat KW - Γαλλική Δημοκρατία KW - Γαλλία KW - Франц KW - Франц Улс KW - Французская Рэспубліка KW - Францыя KW - Франция KW - Френска република KW - פראנקרייך KW - צרפת KW - רפובליקה הצרפתית KW - فرانسه KW - فرنسا KW - フランス KW - フランス共和国 KW - 法国 KW - 法蘭西 KW - 法蘭西共和國 KW - 프랑스 KW - France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) KW - Civilization KW - Intellectual life KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888116 AB - Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citizenship. It discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers, both the very well known -Lyotard, Levinas, Derrida - and those who will be less familiar to a non-French audience. In doing so, it addresses the questions central to the postmodern debate whatever country it takes place in; questions of history, of representation, identit ER -