Modernity as Experience and Interpretation (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to
be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed
by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and
fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary...
be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed
by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and
fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary...
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We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to
be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed
by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and
fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is
needed. This book proposes such an analysis.
Every society seeks answers to certain basic questions: how to
order life in common; how to satisfy human needs; how to establish
knowledge. Sociology long assumed that the answers had been found
once and for all: a liberal-democratic state, a market economy, and
free scientific institutions. This trinity used to be called
'modern society'.
By contrast, this book is based on the idea that, under
conditions of modernity, there are no stable and certain answers to
these questions. There is a plurality of possible answers, every
proposed answer can be criticized and contested, and every society
needs to find its answer on its own.
This new sociology of modernity proposes two key instruments
through which to understand the answers given to those questions:
the experiences human beings have of their own modernity and the
interpretations they give to those experiences. It reviews the
history of 'Western' modernity in this light and then
focuses on the specific answers that were and are being developed
in Europe.
be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed
by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and
fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is
needed. This book proposes such an analysis.
Every society seeks answers to certain basic questions: how to
order life in common; how to satisfy human needs; how to establish
knowledge. Sociology long assumed that the answers had been found
once and for all: a liberal-democratic state, a market economy, and
free scientific institutions. This trinity used to be called
'modern society'.
By contrast, this book is based on the idea that, under
conditions of modernity, there are no stable and certain answers to
these questions. There is a plurality of possible answers, every
proposed answer can be criticized and contested, and every society
needs to find its answer on its own.
This new sociology of modernity proposes two key instruments
through which to understand the answers given to those questions:
the experiences human beings have of their own modernity and the
interpretations they give to those experiences. It reviews the
history of 'Western' modernity in this light and then
focuses on the specific answers that were and are being developed
in Europe.
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Wagner
Peter Wagner is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Wagner
- 2013, 1. Auflage, 296 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 074565584X
- ISBN-13: 9780745655840
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.04.2013
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