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Remarks on Simon Susen’s The “Postmodern Turn” in the Social Sciences

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  1. It was a long time ago that I was relieved to hear a Derridean friend refer to “what we used to call postmodernism.” Simon Susen suggests that “the engagement with postmodern thought peaked in the mid-1990s” and cites the claim by Bauman and Tester (2007: 25) that ”around 1997 or so the tide started to turn.”

  2. Michel Maffesoli : « La postmodernité marque la fin de la République une et indivisible » PHILITT. http://philitt.fr/2015/03/23/entretien-avec-michel-maffesoli-la-postmodernite-marque-la-fin-de-la-republique-une-et-indivisible/Accessed 28.1.16.

  3. His book titles often have a temporal focus (Maffesoli 1979, 1988), and in the interview just mentioned, which also addresses this theme, he refers to his current interest in couchsurfing.

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Outhwaite, W. Remarks on Simon Susen’s The “Postmodern Turn” in the Social Sciences . Int J Polit Cult Soc 29, 423–427 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-016-9229-3

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