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Article: Henry George: an unrecognized contributor to American social theory.
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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"Reconstructionist" Postmodernity
Deconstructionist postmodernism's critique of modern social theory contends that the formalism and discursiveness of modernity's methods force it to create totalitarian structures that degrade the subject.(1) These are the institutions of bourgeois civil society: religious secularism, individualism, the market economy, and the nuclear family. From a postmodern point of view, these institutions are the "media" which organize the content of the institutions of traditional society: Patriarchal family and religion, traditional authority structures, and natural economy (McLuhan, 1964:8). The modern media are "totalitarian" in an ...