Modernity and Identity

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: subjectivity and modernity's Other: Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman.

Part I: Cosmopolitan Narratives:.

1. Why modernism still matters: Marshall Berman.

2. Cosmopolitan without emancipation: a response to Lyotard: Richard Rorty.

3. Modernity as postmodernity: Jean-Fran&ccediloise Lyotard: Christina B&uumlrger.

4. The disappearance of meaning: essay at a postmodern reading of Michel Ournier, Botho Strauss and Peter Handke: Peter B&uumlrger.

Part II: Representation and the Transformation of Identity:.

5. Popular Representation: recasting realism: Nicholas Abercrombie, Scott Lash and Brian Longhurst.

6. Popular culture and the construction of postmodern identities: Douglas Kellner.

7. Scopic regimes of modernity: Martin Jay.

8. Identity and reality: the end of the philosophical immigration officer: Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm.

Part III: Spaces of Self and Society:.

9. Postmodern urban landscapes: mapping culture and power: Sharon Zukin.

10. A modern tour in Brazil.

11. Postmodernism and the aestheticization of everyday life: Mike Featherstone.

Part IV: Modernity and the Voice of the Other:.

12. We, the people: popular culture and popular identity in modern Europe: Peter Burke.

13. Past, present and emergent identities: requirements for ethnographies of late twentieth-centuries modernity worldwide: George Marcus.

14. Narcissism, roots and postmodernity: the constitution of selfhood in the global crisis: Jonathan Friedman.

Index.