Download or read book Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies written by Barry Smart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accomplished, comprehensive and accessible book Barry Smart explores these questions. The book examines the social and economic processes which have shaped and continue to shape life today. It also provides exemplary critical assessments of the various `modern' and `postmodern' thinkers who have sought to explain these processes. Judicious in its judgements and superbly informed, the text is a major contribution to the debate on Modernity and Postmodernity.