Postmodernity - Key Ideas Series Author:Barry Smart Postmodernity explores the key issues that arise in debates over modernity and postmodernity, and provides students with an accessible introduction to both the contentious notion of postmodernity as well as the major themes and issues addressed in debates about the limits of modernity. Barry Smart's comprehensive study of this subject ranges ove... more »r the social, economic, political and cultural institutions and practices in which ideas of postmodernity have been articulated.Smart places emphasis on an analysis of the link between the process of globalization and the postmodern condition. Another major theme of Smart's study is the effect of postmodern conditions on knowledge, sociology, politics and social life.« less