ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. It discusses a debate about the disorganization of the world, about the de-realization of each individual's particular known-world, about the loss of meaning and the collective thought that 'everything is going to pot', wrought with regret about the loss of human values. The book analyses the dismantling and temporary reassembly of the organized world order, the splitting and recombining of organizations that surround and structure us. It provides answers to the 'disorganized world' and offers avenues where individuals, separately, and society, as a whole, can try to reform our world, to redo it, to rehearse it, to engage in. In the end, our analysis will focus on the intermediate level, positioned between theories that apply macro-social explanations and those that promote micro-social interpretations.