Introduction

In this accomplished, comprehensive and accessible book Barry Smart explores these questions.

Content Overview

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.

Evaluation

Judicious in its judgements and superbly informed, the text is a major contribution to the debate on Modernity and Postmodernity.