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082			_aMISC _bHAR
100			_aHarvey, David
245		4	_aThe Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
260			_a. _bWiley-Blackwell _c1991
300			_a392 _c15.24 x 2.29 x 22.86 cm _rPaperback
504			_aA great deal has been written on what has variously been described as the post-modern condition and on post-modern culture, architecture, art and society. In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience. But the book is much more than this: in the course of his investigation the author provides a social and semantic history - from the Enlightenment to the present - of modernism and its expression in political and social ideas and movements, as well as in art, literature and architecture. He considers in particular how the meaning and perception of time and space themselves vary over time and space, and shows that this variance affects individual values and social processes of the most fundamental kind. This book will be widely welcomed, not only for its clear and critical account of the arguments surrounding the propositions of modernity and post-modernity, but as an incisive contribution to the history of ideas and their relation to social and political change.
650			_aCapitalism
650			_aModern civilization
650			_aSocial science
650			_aSpace and time
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