The Dark Side of Modernity
In this book, one of the world s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies the Enlightenment s noble hopes for progress and rationality, but its reality brings great suffering and exposes the destructive impulses that continue to motivate humankind. Alexander examines how twentieth-century theorists struggled to comprehend the Janus-faced character of modernity, which looks backward and forward at the same t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-6506-1
- EAN: 9780745665061
- Produktnummer: 16366704
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 499 KB
Über den Autor
Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University and a co-director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale.
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