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The Transformation of Modernity

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The Transformation of Modernity

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The Transformation of Modernity book

Aspects of the past, present and future of an era

The Transformation of Modernity

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The Transformation of Modernity book

Aspects of the past, present and future of an era
Edited ByMikael Carleheden, Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2001
eBook Published 30 September 2017
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315203287
Pages 332
eBook ISBN 9781315203287
Subjects Social Sciences
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Carleheden, M., & Jacobsen, M.H. (Eds.). (2001). The Transformation of Modernity: Aspects of the past, present and future of an era (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315203287

ABSTRACT

This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The portrait of the modern society or modernity offered by philosophers and social scientists from Hobbes to Parsons is no longer understood as a description of the final and highest stage in the social evolution of mankind. Modern society is not the end of history but simply another more or less contingent social and cultural formation on planet earth. This new perspective on modernity and its transformation, which has emerged from the modernist-postmodernist debate, is the subject matter of this book. It is addressed in a multidisciplinary and international way, both theoretically and empirically, and is explored not only in general and historical terms, but also through specific topics such as sexuality, identity, democracy, globalization, knowledge and leadership. Offering an important collaborative contribution to contemporary discourse in sociology, social psychology, politics and philosophy, this book represents a unique effort to come to grips with our obscure and elusive social position at the start of the 21st century.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part 1|115 pages

General Aspects

chapter 1|16 pages

Time-Consciousness and Transformation: On Modernity’s Relation to the Future

ByNikolas Kompridis

chapter 2|21 pages

From Industrial Modernity to Risk Modernity? A Critical Discussion of the Theory of the ‘Risk Society’ 1

ByKlaus Rasborg

chapter 3|30 pages

Early Reflexive Modernity: The Differentiation of Political Reflexivity

ByGorm Harste

chapter 4|12 pages

Modernity and Its Archive: The Principle of Insufficient Reason

ByBo Isenberg

chapter 5|33 pages

Rethinking the Epochs of Western Modernity

ByMikael Carleheden

part 2|105 pages

Identity, Sexuality and the Intimate Sphere

chapter 6|11 pages

Modern and Postmodern Themes in American Sexual Politics

BySteven Seidman

chapter 7|35 pages

Private Sexuality, Public Morality and Modern Sexology: What Prospects of Sexuality in Times of Uncertainty?

ByMichael Hviid Jacobsen

chapter 8|18 pages

‘If People Believe Ideas are Real…’: Women’s SelfPerception as Active Individuals in Late Modernity

ByCatharina Juul Kristensen

chapter 9|39 pages

Transformations of Identities In Rapidly Changing Societies

ByLars Dencik

part 3|76 pages

Globalisation, Knowledge and Democracy

chapter 10|15 pages

Global Society as the Crisis of Democracy

ByHauke Brunkhorst

chapter 11|32 pages

Professions on the Road to Global Power: The Case of the Legal Profession

ByMargareta Bertelsson

chapter 12|26 pages

Modern Reflexive Leadership

ByØjvind Larsen
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