Overview
- Contends that post-modernity is best understood not as a theoretical approach but as a cultural condition
- Offers an analysis of post-modernity’s emergence as the cultural condition of contemporary neoliberal societies
- Takes an interdisciplinary approach spanning economic policy, cultural analysis, political theory, and social critique
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism (PASTCL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Discourse of Post-modernity
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What Is Post-modernity?
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Overcoming Post-modernity?
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About this book
This book is a systematic and thorough analysis of what post-modernity is and how it emerged. It distinguishes between those who regard post-modernity as a theoretical approach and those who regard it as a culture, and argues that interpreting post-modernity as a culture is more fruitful. It discusses the three factors which led to its emergence, namely liberalism, capitalism, and secularism, highlighting their respective influence in generating the culture of post-modernity within neoliberal societies.
The volume provides a lengthy analysis of neoliberal post-modernity in practice, arguing that post-modernism is the cultural condition of neoliberal societies in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Until recently it seemed that neoliberal post-modernity was here to stay, framed by relationship to freedom and time which stressed individual agency but precluded the possibility of historical change at the political level. However, the Great Recession of2008 opened new spaces for agitation and transformation which has resulted in the discordant politics of the last decade. This book will be of interest to scholars working in a number of fields, including economic policy, cultural analysis, political theory, and social critique.
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Book Title: The Emergence of Post-modernity at the Intersection of Liberalism, Capitalism, and Secularism
Book Subtitle: The Center Cannot Hold
Authors: Matthew McManus
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98970-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98969-9Published: 08 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98972-9Published: 09 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98970-5Published: 07 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-6470
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 311
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Economic Policy, Political Philosophy