Postmodernity and Its Discontents |
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| Author:
| Bauman, Zygmunt |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7456-1790-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1997 |
| Publisher: | Polity Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $72.75 |
Book Description:
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When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression.
Today, in the time of modernity, Bauman argues, Freud′s analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did.
When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression.
Today, in the time of modernity, Bauman argues, Freud′s analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did.