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Recent debates have highlighted the importance of the self to a better understanding of the nature of culture and its relation to power. Mandalios incorporates the current 'postmodern' debate on these issues with an exploration of identity and cultural formation, and the dynamics of social power underlying them.

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Consumption as a field of cultural studies overlaps with theories of postmodernism, the social construction of self, commodification in late capitalism, and the role of mass media in daily life. This volume examines the ways in which consumerism has been approached by cultural studies.

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In this book, Ales Debeljak offers a refreshing alternative to postmodernists such as Baudrillard, who declare the death of art was conceived as yet another source of rootless, circulating fictions. The deterioration of bourgeois liberal individualism into the narcissism ...

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This book addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world.

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This text argues that it is the nature of modernity to foster compassion. It offers a historical view to disprove the idea that modernity erodes moral sentiment and breaks down older social bonds. The book looks at the way in which modern society is building new and different social bonds.