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Jeffrey C. Alexander

The Dark Side of Modernity

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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 tim… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7456-4822-4
  • EAN: 9780745648224
  • Produktnummer: 19331326
  • Verlag: Wiley
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 200 S.
  • Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.6 cm 316 g
  • Gewicht: 316

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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