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Leonard, Peter

 
9780803976108: Postmodern Welfare: Reconstructing an Emancipatory Project
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803976100 ISBN 13: 9780803976108
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

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Peter Leonard provides an accessible analysis of debates about the crisis of the welfare state under the contemporary conditions of postmodern scepticism and the triumphs of global market capitalism. In the last two decades Western governments have sought to replace the post-war welfare compact with neo-conservative individualism. The prospects for the Left look bleak. At the same time, postmodern critique raises profound questions about the validity of a mass politics of emancipation based on the universal values of justice, reason and progress.

From a critical perspective founded in Marxism and feminism, Leonard uses elements of postmodern deconstruction to consider how we might now re-think the present and future of welf

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Peter Leonard, Professor at the School of Social Work at McGill University, Canada, and was previously Professor of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warwick, UK. He has written extensively on social theory and social welfare, and is the author of five books, including Social Work Practice Under Capitalism (with Paul Corrig, Macmillan, 1978); and Personality and Ideology (Macmillan, 1984).

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Peter Leonard provides an accessible analysis of debates about the crisis of the welfare state under the contemporary conditions of postmodern scepticism and the triumphs of global market capitalism.

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803976100
ISBN 13 
9780803976108
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
187
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