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If the postmodern condition is a dystopia characterized by alienation and despair, argues distinguished sociologist Stanford Lyman, postmodern epistemologies compound the problem by denigrating Enlightenment philosophies that still offer agency and hope to those who struggle to be free. In this, his sixth volume in the Studies in American Sociology series, Lyman examines this contradiction as it has shaped American discourses on race and community, asking why Gunnar Myrdal's "American Dilemma" is still unresolved; how Chinese workers have fared in the labor movement and in labor history; what searches for "the lost tribes of Israel" have meant socially and historically; how cinema has offered metaphors for social action but presented failed utopias on screen; and how we have not yet established a basic definition of "the good life". In each of these instances, Lyman seeks new routes in the quest for justice.

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• Full title: Roads to Dystopia
• Author: Stanford M. Lyman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 464
• EAN: 9781557287113
• ISBN: 9781557287113
• ID: 06372950
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Weight: 803 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 162 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. October 2001

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