The experience of modernisation - the social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world - and modernism in art, literature and architecture are integrated in this account.

Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world.

From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, this title provides an account of the roots of imperialism in European culture.

Features postmodernity's quintessential theorist with his meditations on the meanings of objects.

Part of Radical Thinkers series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. It offers a postmodernist philosopher's tour-de-force contemplation on sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the 'orgy' of the 1960s.

Takes the readers on a mystery tour spanning an arc from the mediaeval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. This work features hieroglyphs of cabbalists, Rosicrucians and freemasons, which are shown to be linked with the scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine.