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(2018) Work, wealth, and postmodernism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
This Introduction explores both the nature of modernisation and the critiques mounted against it by the different bodies of postmodernist thought. The most successful model for "modernisation", it is argued, is one associated not just with "capitalism". Instead, it is premised on an embrace of market economies, respect for private property and individual rights, political democracy, and legally free and mobile labour forces. Although there are sharp divisions within postmodernist canon—most particularly between Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida—the various strands of postmodernism, nevertheless, share a common hostility to the idea that human progress can (or should) be based on science, increased wealth, and rational understandings of the objective world.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76180-0_1
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Bowden, B. (2018). Introduction, in Work, wealth, and postmodernism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-25.
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