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Growing Up Postmodern
Ronald . Ed(S): Strickland
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Description for Growing Up Postmodern
Hardback. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance. Editor(s): Strickland, Ronald. Series: Culture and Politics Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JFSP2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and expressed not through social investment, but through consumption; the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. ... Read more
This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and expressed not through social investment, but through consumption; the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Culture and Politics Series
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742516502
SKU
V9780742516502
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About Ronald . Ed(S): Strickland
Ronald Strickland is professor of English and the director of graduate studies at Illinois State University.
Reviews for Growing Up Postmodern
If you care what 'young' means in the developed world today, Growing Up Postmodern's map of the seductions and blameflows of the newest regime is a vital source. Read it and use it to fight back!
Fred Pfeil, Trinity College Children are the collateral damage in a war that an affluent, unjust society has been waging under the sign ... Read more
Fred Pfeil, Trinity College Children are the collateral damage in a war that an affluent, unjust society has been waging under the sign ... Read more