Sociology of Postmodernism

aesthetic argued autonomization avant-garde become Berlin body Bourdieu bourgeois capitalism central century chapter cinema claims Classical communicative concept constituted consumer context critical critique cultural Deleuze desire differentiation discourse discussion distinction early economy effect especially ethics example field figures forces formal Foucault function further German Habermas Habermas's hence historical human identity images important individual institutions knowledge language largely latter less London Lyotard Marxism material means modernism modernist moral movement narrative nature norms noted notion objects organs painting Paris perhaps political popular position possible postmodern postmodernist practices principle production question rationality realist reality realm reason recent referent relation representations sciences sense separate signifier social society sociology sort space speak sphere structure struggles substantive symbolic theoretical theory tion traditional understanding understood University Weber