| Description |
x, 207 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. From enlightenment to risk : an introduction -- 2. Reason, rationalisation and the culture industry -- 3. The end of enlightenment : critical theory, modernity and genocide -- 4. Jurgen Habermas : self reflection, rationality and communicative action -- 5. Michel Foucault : reason and unreason - from the 'ship of fools' to disciplinary society -- 6. Postmodernism, postmodernity and hyperreality -- 7. Shrinking the world : the globalisation of modernity -- 8. Risk society and (dis)information : from reflexive modernization to cybersociality -- 9. Critical psycho-social studies : a conclusion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sociology.
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| LC no. |
2005049330 |
| ISBN |
1403939527 cloth |
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1403939535 paperback |
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