The Dark Side of Modernity
In this book, one of the world's leading social theoristspresents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of thepost-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writesabout modernity as historical time and social condition, but alsoas ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies theEnlightenment's noble hopes for progress and rationality, butits reality brings great suffering and exposes the destructiveimpulses that continue to motivate humankind.Alexander examines how twentieth-century theorists struggled tocomprehend the Janus-faced character of modernity, which looksbackward and forward at the same time. Weber…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-7651-7
- EAN: 9780745676517
- Produktnummer: 15167659
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 770 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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