Postmodernism Flashcards
1
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Daniel Bell
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Managerialism - all about managing the economy
2
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Anthony Downs
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Non-tuism - instrumental rationality - applied to politics- voters are consumers/ somewhat corroborates with new right Britten thinking
3
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Francis Fukuyama
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End of history - triumph of liberalism
4
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Saussure & Lyotard
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Words carry baggage - limiting - reality can only be expressed through limiting words - most pertinent with gender
5
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Lyotard
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Metanarrative - locks ideological concepts - authors make own history
6
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Foucault
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Words are power - relativism - Szasz, Myth of Mental Illness, Kuhn - paradigm shifts
7
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Derrida
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Principle of discourse - language games, inescapable
