The Passing of Modernity: Communication and the Transformation of Society (Communications)

This volume is a contribution to contemporary communication theory and social transformation. The text includes the main perspectives in development theories as well as many of the themes of modernization and social change that have preoccupied major writers since the end of World War I. It synthesizes a wide range of experiemental studies over a broad range of issues concerning development and communication and includes analyses, reviews and critical reconstructions of such thinkers and theorists as Ion Khaldun, Smith, Marx, Weber, Habermas and Khomeini. It also includes postmodern and poststructural writers and polemiasts such as Foucalt, Lyotard, DeLeuze and Guattari.