Books in the Social Futures series

This outstanding book analyses the Soviet model as a distinctive pattern of modernity - examining its historical background and institutional structure, and challenging many of the assumptions and judgements made about the Soviet road.

Examines the social and economic processes which have shaped and continue to shape life today. It also provides critical assessments of the various "modern" and "postmodern" thinkers who have sought to explain these processes.

In this study, O'Neill examines the postmodern turn in the social sciences. From a phenomenological standpoint, he challenges Lyotard's post-rationalist reading of Wittgenstein and Habermas, in order to defend commonsense reason and values that are constitutive of the everyday world.

First full length discussion of hyperreality. Perry provides the reader with a full length discussion of the origins of the concept, nuances of meaning and case studies of hyperrealism - European tourism, American telivision etc.