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Author Jacobsen, Michael Hviid

Title The Transformation of Modernity : Aspects of the Past, Present and Future of an Era
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (333 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: General Aspects -- 1. Time-Consciousness and Transformation: On Modernityâ#x80;#x99;s Relation to the Future -- 2. From Industrial Modernity to Risk Modernity? A Critical Discussion of the Theory of the â#x80;#x98;Risk Societyâ#x80;#x99; -- 3. Early Reflexive Modernity: The Differentiation of Political Reflexivity -- 4. Modernity and Its Archive: The Principle of Insufficient Reason -- 5. Rethinking the Epochs of Western Modernity
Part II: Identity, Sexuality and the Intimate Sphere6. Modern and Postmodern Themes in American Sexual Politics -- 7. Private Sexuality, Public Morality and Modern Sexology: What Prospects of Sexuality in Times of Uncertainty? -- 8. â#x80;#x98;If People Believe Ideas are Real ... â#x80;#x99;: Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Self Perception as Active Individuals in Late Modernity -- 9. Transformations of Identities in Rapidly Changing Societies -- Part III: Globalisation, Knowledge and Democracy -- 10. Global Society as the Crisis of Democracy
11. Professions on the Road to Global Power: The Case of the Legal Profession12. Modern Reflexive Leadership -- List of Contributors
Summary "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."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
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Subject Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
Civilization, Modern
Form Electronic book
Author Carleheden, Mikael
ISBN 9781351787550
1351787551
9781315203287
1315203286