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Hypermodern Times
Gilles Lipovetsky
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Description for Hypermodern Times
Paperback. * Lipovetsky is an important thinker in France and his ideas and responses to current intellectual debates surrounding modernity and postmodernity discussed in this book will travel well. * This book presents a highly original new way of thinking about modern society and the individual. Num Pages: 102 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 138.
The term a postmodernitya has been used to describe that historical transformation of the late 20th century when the institutional breaks holding back individual emancipation disintegrated, thereby giving rise to the full expression of individual desires and the quest for self--fulfilment. But there are now signs -- argues Gilles Lipovetsky, one of the most original social thinkers in France today -- that wea ve entered a new phase of a hypermodernitya , characterized by hyper--consumption and the hypermodern individual. Hyperconsumption is a consumption which absorbs and integrates more and more spheres of social life and which encourages individuals ... Read more
The term a postmodernitya has been used to describe that historical transformation of the late 20th century when the institutional breaks holding back individual emancipation disintegrated, thereby giving rise to the full expression of individual desires and the quest for self--fulfilment. But there are now signs -- argues Gilles Lipovetsky, one of the most original social thinkers in France today -- that wea ve entered a new phase of a hypermodernitya , characterized by hyper--consumption and the hypermodern individual. Hyperconsumption is a consumption which absorbs and integrates more and more spheres of social life and which encourages individuals ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
102
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745634210
SKU
V9780745634210
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About Gilles Lipovetsky
Gilles Lipovetsky, Professor of Philosopy and member of the Conseil National des Programmes (Education Nationale) in France Sebastien Charles, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada
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