From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society
New Theories of the Contemporary World
The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and
substantial opening chapter.
* New edition of a classic study by a leading social
theorist
* Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social
theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and
post-modernism
* Places the three key ideas within the context of contemporary
discourse on globalization.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Preface to First Edition..
1 Rethinking Modernity.
2 The Revival of Post-Industrial Theory..
3 The Information Society..
4 Fordism and Post-Fordism..
5 Modernity and Post-Modernity (1): The Idea of the Modern..
6 Modernity and Post-Modernity (2): The Idea of
Post-Modernity..
7 Millennial Themes: Endings and Beginnings..
Notes.
References.
Index.
Preface to First Edition..
1 Rethinking Modernity.
2 The Revival of Post-Industrial Theory..
3 The Information Society..
4 Fordism and Post-Fordism..
5 Modernity and Post-Modernity (1): The Idea of the Modern..
6 Modernity and Post-Modernity (2): The Idea of
Post-Modernity..
7 Millennial Themes: Endings and Beginnings..
Notes.
References.
Index.
"This superb book, which has been essential reading since its
original publication, now includes a major new introductory
chapter, covering theories of globalization and multiple
modernity's. Kumar manages to to be judicious and
provocative, comprehensive and clear, and magisterial and readable.
The book is an indispensable guide to these highly contested yet
inescapable attempts to theorize modern societies."
William Outhwaite, University of Sussex
"From Post-Industrial to Post Modern Society has
established itself as an incomparable classic of modern sociology.
The second edition extends the range of the original text to
address new problems of globalism, and thereby integrates the
globalization debate into concerns about post-modernity. A singular
achievement." Bryan Turner, Cambrige University.
original publication, now includes a major new introductory
chapter, covering theories of globalization and multiple
modernity's. Kumar manages to to be judicious and
provocative, comprehensive and clear, and magisterial and readable.
The book is an indispensable guide to these highly contested yet
inescapable attempts to theorize modern societies."
William Outhwaite, University of Sussex
"From Post-Industrial to Post Modern Society has
established itself as an incomparable classic of modern sociology.
The second edition extends the range of the original text to
address new problems of globalism, and thereby integrates the
globalization debate into concerns about post-modernity. A singular
achievement." Bryan Turner, Cambrige University.
Krishan Kumar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Since publishing the first edition of From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society, he has co-edited Public and Private in Thought and Practice (1987) and written 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals (2001) and The Making of English National Identity (2003).